rush

Naija

Alternative forms

• pack 0.64 339, pursue 0.62 426, drive 0.61 431, bury 0.61 278, outside 0.61 702, greet 0.60 161, travel 0.59 914, hook 0.59 67, meet 0.59 1651

Etymology

Borrowed from English rush

Pronunciation

• rɔ̂ʃ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 12
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 644
• Frequency in raw corpus: 210
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1275

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

rush: stampede -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Everybody just dey rush.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:5)

   di police for di area get information rush go di place;  — (bbc__1707, __no translation__)

   But e say based on im own experience, na di students 'dey rush lecturers pass'.  — (bbc__76447, __no translation__)

3. nsubj-obj (frequency:4)

   Emergency service say dem rush 29 pipo wey get minor and serious injury go hospital.  — (bbc__46862, __no translation__)

   Wen helicopter rush di unconscious woman wey don suffer serious stroke reach hospital for April, she bin no too get chance of survival.  — (bbc__98793, __no translation__)

4. nsubj (frequency:3)

   I carry patient go do lab test na im I hear shout and commotion na so I rush and by di time I reach dia dem don already arrest di mad man wey dey naked. Na so Yushau tok.  — (bbc__32, __no translation__)

   Kano Police say di man bin warn di pipo wey dey do di horse procession not to enter im street and as dem enter na im e rush go carry im pump action gun start to dey fire pipo for di street.  — (bbc__61839, __no translation__)

5. aux-obj (frequency:3)

   Go rush food, go siddon again.  — (NST_cleaned__4156, __no translation__)

   na around dat time dem come dey disturb dey rush us  — (deuber__4796, __no translation__)

6. aux (frequency:2)

   That morning, as John dey try open one big iron drum, e cut im hand and blood come dey rush.  — (jw__27962, __no translation__)

   Na so I go stand up dey rush, dey work hard inside dat, towards dat, dat morning because na dat time na im I see light.  — (NST_cleaned__10697, __no translation__)

7. mark-obj (frequency:2)

   Maitre Claude Assira, defence party tell BBC News Pidgin say for pipo weh deh go fit face death sentence, e no good for rush the defence.  — (bbc__64845, __no translation__)

   Before now, di Minister of Labour say di 14 days deadline wey dem give goment na style to hurry-hurry di tripartite committee for di new National Minimum Wage to rush di mata.  — (bbc__19631, __no translation__)

8. aux-nsubj (frequency:2)

   Im wonda why Buhari goment dey rush.  — (bbc__76473, __no translation__)

   Today wey be Monday, make time dey rush, make time dey rush, make I go house.  — (NST_cleaned__1793, __no translation__)

9. conj-nsubj (frequency:2)

   Im say wen dem reach di venue for di occasion, some IPOB members rush come greet dem, den begin yan some kain tins wey Ekweremadu no understand.  — (bbc__59260, __no translation__)

   Delilah rush go tell Philistine people sey: ‘I know wetin make am get power!’ E come make Samson sleep for im lap and e call person come barb im hair.  — (jw__6373, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• pack 0.64 339, pursue 0.62 426, drive 0.61 431, bury 0.61 278, outside 0.61 702, greet 0.60 161, travel 0.59 914, hook 0.59 67, meet 0.59 1651

Antonymes

• pack 0.64 339, pursue 0.62 426, drive 0.61 431, bury 0.61 278, outside 0.61 702, greet 0.60 161, travel 0.59 914, hook 0.59 67, meet 0.59 1651

Translations

• English: stampede