rotten

Naija

Alternative forms

• rotin

Etymology

From: English rotten

Pronunciation

• rɔ̀tí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2785
• Frequency in raw corpus: 25
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4752

Adjective

Na as someting wey don spoil come sour sotay moco moco go dey comot as e dey smell.

• Some people, deir tings con dey rotten for farm.  — (IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__71, The farm produce of some farmers began to rot.)
• The kind paper wey dem first take write Bible dey rotten.  — (jw__15, The paper type used in writing the Bible at the first instance rots.)

Synonyms

• sour

Translations

• English: rotten

Verb

Make person carry dey behave for way wey e no correct for matter wey concern man and woman.

1. • You don dey rotten sef.  — (Egbokhare_2021, You are getting spoilt.)
   • Di pikin don rotten as e take dey hide watch blue film ontop phone.  — (The child is morally bankrupt as secretly watches pornography on a phone.)

Synonyms

• spoil

Translations

• English: to be promiscuous/prurient, to be a brat