pikin

Naija

Alternative forms

• pickin, pikini

Etymology

Borrowed from Krio

Pronunciation

• pìkîn

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 115
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 124
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4969
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 80

Noun

• Person wey be sey na one mile and pile born

1. Di gumbody country dem sign sey dem go respect di right of di pikin dem.  — Egbokhare_2020, no translation
2. Pikin go get…  — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)
3. 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

• Man pikin

Synonyms

• children 0.75 1537, blood.

Translations

• English: child