Difference between revisions of "pikin"

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* Person wey no be [[sabi person]].
 
* Person wey no be [[sabi person]].
 
:* {{ux|dv|You think sey I be '''pikin''' for dis job. |(NSC_Tella_2020, Do you think that I'm a novice in this job.)}}
 
:* {{ux|dv|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====
 
* [[Man pikin]]
 
  
 
====Translations====
 
====Translations====
 
* English: ''child, novice''
 
* English: ''child, novice''

Revision as of 11:39, 9 July 2021

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

From West Indies: Pickaninny use to refer to babies and more widely referring to small children

Pronunciation

  • pìkîn

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Noun

  • Small omomo wey dem just born wey still small.
  • Pikin suppose collect all the vaccines wey smallsmall children dey collect  — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)
  • Child wey don grow wey never mature finish.
  • Your pikin don grow comot for di small pikin wey I bin know.  — NSC_2021, Your child is now all grown up and no longer the young child I knew him to be.)
  • How dat 'pikin?  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__83, How will that child...)
  • You think sey I be pikin for dis job.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, Do you think that I'm a novice in this job.)

Translations

  • English: child, novice