mouth

Naija

Alternative forms

maut

Etymology

From: English mouth

Pronunciation

• maʊt

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 18
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 503
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1125
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 326

Definition

Part of person bodi wey e dey take talk and chop

Noun

1. Wetin person take dey chop, laugh and talk

   • You sure sey dat pikin wey never pass 5 years fit take im small mouth chop tiko?  — (NSC_Odirin_2020, Are you sure that that child who is not above 5 years can use her mouth to eat dried meat?)
   • Momoh, Momoh, dat your mouth wey you dey take laugh me, na dat same mouth you go take come beg me.  — (Deuber__1957, Momoh, Momoh, you will yet apologise to me with the very mouth that you are insulting me with.)

2. Na for person to sabi talk

   • I get mouth.  — (NSC_ , I am sharp-tongued.)

3. Na for talk to dey serious

   • No be for mouth;  — (bbc__74913, I am not being boastful.)
   • Na just mouth.  — (NST_cleaned__40780, It is just mere talk.)

4. Na agreement

   • Na one mouth husband and wife go take di matter give landlord.  — (NSC_Odirin 2020, A husband and wife must speak with one voice to the landlord.)
   • Sabi people no use one mouth talk about am.  — (bbc__63901, Experts had different opinions on the issue.)

5. Na ordinary talk.

   • Na wetin make Jesus talk wetin prophet Isaiah talk about dem, when e sey: ‘Na mouth this people take dey respect me, but their mind no dey my side at all.  — (jw__4457, It is what made Jesus refer to what prophet Isaiah said about them when he said: This people respect me only with their lips.)

6. To get power for matter.

   • Nigeria get mouth for plenty things wey dey appun for Di Gambia.  — (bbc__73654, Nigeria is involved with a number of things that is happening in the Gambia.)

7. Wetin dey person mind

   • Na EndSARS dey everybodi mouth now for Naija.  — (bbc__36028, NSC_Odirin 2020, It is EndSARS that is presently on everybody's mouth in Nigeria.)
   • Na di mouth of di special adviser on top petroleum matter and energy matter dis order fall comot.  — (deuber__1770, It is the special adviser on Petroleum and Energy who gave this order.)
   • On January 18 2019, Atiku close di mouth of im opponents dem wen im land US for di first time afta 12 years.  — (bbc__77604, On January 18 2019, Atiku shut the mouths of his opponents when he first landed in US after 12 years.)

Related forms

• dust mouth, bad mouth, mouth talk, pikin mouth, people mouth

Translations

• English: mouth