magomago

Naija

Alternative forms

• mago mago

Etymology

From English magomago

Pronunciation

• màgòmágó

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3023
• Frequency in raw corpus: 75
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2495

Noun

• Na wen person dey dubious or no dey behave straight.

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Everything wey you dey do here na magomago.  — Egbokhare_2021, Everything you are doing here is dubious.

   But magomago dey how dem take do am.  — (bbc__22979, But the way they do it is fraudulent.)

   Na two magomago tori dey make dem vex:  — (bbc__72128, It was two fraudulent stories that made vexed. )

Derived forms

• wuruwuru

Synonyms

• yahoo yahoo, fraud, rig, 419

Antonyms

• straight

Translations

• English: crookedness, crooked behaviour.