messup

Naija

Alternative form

• mess up

Etymology

From: English mess

Pronunciation

• mɛ́sʌ̀p

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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

Verb

Intransitive

Make person dey misbehave.

• Dose guys don messup for church o.  — (JOS_24_Football_M__43, Those guys really messed up
• I send dat bae tfare o, and she still messup, she no con show at all.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M__2020, I sent her transportation fare and she eventually disappointed me by not showing up.)

Related forms

• mess up

Synonyms

• fuck up,fall hand

Translations

• English: misbehave