mouth
Naija
Alternative forms
maut
Etymology
From: English mouth
Pronunciation
- maʊt
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
- 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.)
- Na for person to sabi talk
- I get mouth. — (NSC_ , I am sharp-tongued.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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
Translations
- English: mouth