mess

Naija

Etymology

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

Make person pollute de air.

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 mess up.)
   • 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.)

Derived forms

messup

Synonyms

fuckup, shit, fallhand,messy messy

Antonyms

baff up, tush up

Translations

English: fart, misbehave