pant

Naija

Alternative forms

• jeans 0.78 12, skirt 0.74 26, earrings 0.73 5, bum 0.73 17, grey 0.72 8, tap 0.71 32, beside 0.71 9, shirt 0.71 52, waist 0.71 25

Etymology

Borrowed from English pant

Pronunciation

• pánt

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1692
• Frequency in raw corpus: 22
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5097

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

pant: a foolish person -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   That guy be real pant. See as pikin dey play am.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:8)

   Pant, comot pant dey work,  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__51, pant, remove pant and work.)

   Harp be help alhajah remove pant.  — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__68, Harp is help Alhaja to remover her pants.)

3. nmod:poss (frequency:3)

   If I wan AC, I dey loose my pant.  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__50, If I want the AC, I loosen my pant.)

   As she dey waka, you go fit see her pant for outside o.  — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__28, As she was walking, you could see her underwear.)

4. amod (frequency:2)

   na dat one wear only pant.  — (deuber__4558, __no translation__)

   For man to dey wear tight pant or make di private part too hot fit lead to low sperm count.  — (bbc__59976, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• jeans 0.78 12, skirt 0.74 26, earrings 0.73 5, bum 0.73 17, grey 0.72 8, tap 0.71 32, beside 0.71 9, shirt 0.71 52, waist 0.71 25

Antonyms

• jeans 0.78 12, skirt 0.74 26, earrings 0.73 5, bum 0.73 17, grey 0.72 8, tap 0.71 32, beside 0.71 9, shirt 0.71 52, waist 0.71 25

Translations

• English: a foolish person