squeeze

Naija

Alternative forms

• frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5

Etymology

Borrowed from English squeeze

Pronunciation

• skwiz

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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

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

squeeze: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. aux-compound:svc-nsubj (frequency:4)

   Fans hail Iwobi performance as Everton lose for EPL Iwobi transfer from Arsenal make Nigerians squeeze face  — (bbc__48673, __no translation__)

   Di Nigeria Labour Congress president come squeeze face talk say make dem deal well well with any officer wey be thiefi-thiefi jakoliko.  — (deuber__79, __no translation__)

2. cc-obj (frequency:2)

   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, your manager, your agent.'  — (bbc__2395, __no translation__)

   She say:As soon as dey snap di photo, e drop im hands from my waist go down to my buttock and squeeze am, na im make you see say for di picture my mouth dey wide open.  — (bbc__89126, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5

Antonyms

• frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5

Translations

• English: no definition