shineshine
Naija
Etymology
From English: shine
Pronunciation
- ʃàìnʃáín
Noun
- Wetin be sey if light touch am e go show di light.
- You dey come wedding, you wear shineshine full everywhere. Shey you want make everybody leave di bride dey look you? — (You came for the wedding wearing very bright clothes, do you want to take attention off the bride?)
- No be by shineshine you go take turn Michael Jackson o, di ting be sey you sabi dance? No be sey you go raise leg di next ting, see you see ground. — ( The shinny shirt is not what will suddenly make you turn to Michael Jackson. The thing is, can you dance? So that we won't have a situation where you try to raise your leg and then fall to the ground.)
- I dey see shineshine for di cloth wey I wear. — (I can see sequins on the cloth I am wearing.)
- Name of beer.
- Ehn for di star, and dat shineshine bobo, na three hundred, di Goldberg, three hundred. — (LAG_26_Selling-Drinks_DG__68, For the Star, and shineshine bobo, the amount is three hundred. The Goldberg is three hundred.)
- Name for wetin be fake.
- Na shineshine e dey wear o. — (What he/she is wearing is fake.)
Related form
Translation
- English: beer, worthless jewelry, sequins