Difference between revisions of "mess"

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===Definition===
 
===Definition===
Make person pollute de air.
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Gas wey dey comot for person yansh wey dey smell.
  
 
===Verb===
 
===Verb===

Revision as of 13:10, 8 October 2020

Naija

Etymology

From: English mess

Pronunciation

  • mɛ́s

Play Play

Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2735
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 41
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3568

Definition

Gas wey dey comot for person yansh wey dey smell.

Verb

  1. Make person spoil air.
    • I wan mess.  — (Egbokhare 2020, I want to fart.)
    • After she use am during working hours when she dey deliver justice for di court, den she go empty di content so say e n go mess up en office.  — (bbc__13219, __no translation__)
  2. Make person dey misbehave.
    • Dose guys just dey mess up.  — (JOS_24_Football_M__43, Those guys are just misbehaving.)
    • I send dat bae tfare o, and she still mess up, she no con show at all.  — (NSC_Shulammite 2020, I sent her transportation fare and she eventually disappointed me by not showing up.)

Related forms

messup

Synonyms

fuckup, shit, fallhand,messy messy

Antonyms

baff up, tush up

Translations

English: fart, misbehave