kpako

Naija

Alternative forms

• malware 0.80 6, burnt 0.79 9, contaminated 0.79 5, bam 0.79 17, streams 0.79 6, warden 0.78 5, dreadlock 0.78 5, instantly 0.78 7, boli 0.78 6

Etymology

etymology:Fela parlance

Pronunciation

• kpákó

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1772
• Frequency in raw corpus: 7
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 9428

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

kpako: one from a poor home, one accessioned to the struggles of as a result of his/her background -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   All dese kpako dem, dem too dey make noise.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:5)

   Kpako no get time for dat one o.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__10, The poor people don’t have time for that.)

   We wey be kpako, we no get time to con form mummies pet.  — (NST_cleaned__41717, __no translation__)

3. discourse (frequency:2)

   eh kpako.  — (NST_cleaned__41713, __no translation__)

   And one ting be sey ajebo no go fit mix with ghet-... eh kpako.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__8, And the fact is that the spoilt brats can't mix with the ghet-... uh, the underprivileged.)

Synonymes

• malware 0.80 6, burnt 0.79 9, contaminated 0.79 5, bam 0.79 17, streams 0.79 6, warden 0.78 5, dreadlock 0.78 5, instantly 0.78 7, boli 0.78 6

Antonymes

• malware 0.80 6, burnt 0.79 9, contaminated 0.79 5, bam 0.79 17, streams 0.79 6, warden 0.78 5, dreadlock 0.78 5, instantly 0.78 7, boli 0.78 6

Translations

• English: one from a poor home, one accessioned to the struggles of as a result of his/her background