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

Gas wey dey comot for person yansh wey dey smell.

Noun

1. • Mess dey hungry am to mess.  — (NSC_Shulammite_2020, He is always inclined to farting.)

Verb

1. Make person spoil air.

   • I wan mess.  — (Egbokhare 2020, I want to fart.)
   • Doctor sey baba need mess after di surgery.  — (NSC__Shulammite _2020, the Doctor mentioned the need for papa to pass the gas after the surgery.)

2. Mess for church

1. 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