squeeze

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Naija

Etymology

From English: squeeze

Pronunciation

  • Skwîz

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 4006
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 47
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3279



Verb

  1. Make dem press someting tight.
    • As im grab and squeeze di back of my hand, e pay for my car and come whisper inside my ear No tell anybodi wetin happen.  — (bbc__2395, As he held the back of my hand, he paid the driver for my fare, and whispered into my ears do not tell anybody what happened.)
    • Moyin no squeeze water comot for di cloth.  — ( NSC_Olukayode.S.M, Moyin did not squeeze the water out of the clothes well.)
  2. Make person face be like sey e dey vex.
    • Iwobi transfer from Arsenal make Nigerians squeeze face  — (bbc__48673, Iwobi transfer from Arsenal was displeasing to Nigerians.)

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Translations

  • English: squeeze, displeasing