pikin

Naija

Alternative forms

  • pickin 0.77 840, 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

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Definition

  • pikin: child -- Person wey be sey na one mile and pile born

Noun

  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Di gumbody country dem sign sey dem go respect di right of di pikin dem.  — no translation
  2. - (frequency:1046)
    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...)


Derived forms

Synonyms

  • children 0.75 1537, blood

Translations

  • English: child