shock

Naija

Etymology

From English: shock

Pronunciation

• ʃɔ̂k

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2035
• Frequency in raw corpus: 304
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 976

Noun

When person heart cut.

• Siasia say im still dey suffer shock on top im mother kidnap and no fit tok to tori pipo now.  — (bbc__89507, Siasia is still in shock from his mother's kidnap and is unable to speak with reporters.)
• So dis tin wey happun to oga Dewji na big shock.  — (bbc__21196, What happened to Mr. Dewji was a big shock.)
• I collapse for police headquarter for Asaba wen dem tell me about di body, di shock too much I faint.  — (bbc__56908, I collapsed at the police headquarter at Asaba when I was told about the corpse, the shock was so much that I fainted.)

Translations

• English: shock

Verb

Make someting surprise person.

1. You dey laugh me sey I no pass. Next term, I go shock everybody.  — NSC_2020, You are making fun of me because I failed. Next term, I promise to surprise you.)

   E shock everybody.  — (bbc__45632, Everyone was taken aback.)

2. Make light carry person.

   Abeg o, I no want make di wire shock me o.  —  I do not want to be electrocute by the wire.)

Translations

• English: surprise, electrocute