mess

Naija

Alternative forms

• fuck 0.77 60, wake 0.73 276, warm 0.71 42, walk 0.65 44, zip 0.64 5, roll 0.62 63, pick 0.62 252, bend 0.61 51, set 0.61 549

Etymology

Borrowed from English mess

Pronunciation

• mɛ́s

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Frequency

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

=Definition

sey person spoil air

Verb

1. I wan mess.  — (Egbokhare 2020, I want to fart.)

2. wen person dey misbehave

   Dose guys just dey mess up.  — (JOS_24_Football_M__43, Those guys are just messing up.)

   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__)

Synonyms

fuck up,

Antonyms

• fuck 0.77 60, wake 0.73 276, warm 0.71 42, walk 0.65 44, zip 0.64 5, roll 0.62 63, pick 0.62 252, bend 0.61 51, set 0.61 549

Translations

• English: fried bean balls