mouth

Naija

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 di husband and wife go take talk di matter give landlord.  — (NSC_Odirin 2020, The couple should be in unison when discussing the matter with 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 only mouth politicians for Nigeria sabi make.  — (NSC__Odirin 2020, Nigerian politicians are plain insincere.)

6. Na when person get say for someting.

   • Nigeria get mouth for plenty things wey dey appun for Di Gambia.  — (bbc__73654, Nigeria is involved in most of the intrigues in The Gambia.)

7. Wetin dey person mind

   • Na EndSARS dey everybodi mouth now for Naija.  — (NSC_Odirin 2020, The EndSARS protest is trending in Nigeria.)
   • 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 silenced his critics when he eventually arrived US after a 12 year hiatus.)

Related forms

• bad mouth, pikin mouth, people mouth

Translations

• English: mouth