spoil face
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English spoil face
Pronunciation
- spɔ́ìfês
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 0
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
No documented examples in our corpora.
Verb phrase
- spoil face: Sey person vex con do im face make e show sey e dey true-true dey vex
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Wetin you do don spoil mama face. — what you did has made mother frown
- Sey person want do im face make anoder person fear am
- As I dey go dere eh, I go just spoil face, make de know sey no be play I con play — ( As soon as I get there, I'll put on a scowl, so they'll know I didn't come to play around)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Vex, para,
Antonyms
happy,
Translations
- English: frown, scowl