rake

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Naija

Alternative forms

  • hi 0.87 15, hello 0.86 20, hau 0.84 6, ngwanu 0.84 8, ď 0.83 10, oho 0.83 14, dammy 0.82 11, jekesai 0.82 6, bla 0.82 14

Etymology

Borrowed from English rake

Pronunciation

  • rêk

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3340
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 9
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 8278

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Verb

rake: to make empty threats -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Na rake e dey rake so o.  — no translation
  2. aux-nsubj (frequency:2)
    Why im go rake,  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__263, Why will he shout ?)
    Why im go dey rake?  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__267, Why will he shout ?)

Derived forms

Synonymes

  • hi 0.87 15, hello 0.86 20, hau 0.84 6, ngwanu 0.84 8, ď 0.83 10, oho 0.83 14, dammy 0.82 11, jekesai 0.82 6, bla 0.82 14

Antonymes

  • hi 0.87 15, hello 0.86 20, hau 0.84 6, ngwanu 0.84 8, ď 0.83 10, oho 0.83 14, dammy 0.82 11, jekesai 0.82 6, bla 0.82 14

Translations

  • English: to make empty threats
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