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Revision as of 17:56, 14 May 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
- pickin, pikini
Etymology
Borrowed from Krio
Pronunciation
- pìkîn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 115
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 124
- Frequency in raw corpus: 4969
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 80
Definition
- Person wey be sey na one mile and pile born
Noun
- Di gumbody country dem sign sey dem go respect di right of di pikin dem. — Egbokhare_2020, no translation
- Pikin go get… — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)
- How dat pikin… — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__83, How will that child...)
- Di person wey be novice, wey no be sabi man.
- You think sey I be pikin for dis job. — (NSC_Tella_2020, Do you think that I'm a novice in this job)
Related forms
Synonyms
- children 0.75 1537, blood.
Translations
- English: child