yanga

Naija

Etymology

From Hausa yanga

Pronunciation

  • jàŋgá

Play Play

Adjective

  • All di girls wey enta di room just carry dey do yanga anyhow.  —  (All the girls who entered the room were just haughty.)
  • Dis your yanga no be here.  — (NSC_2020, This your strutting is out of this world.)
  • When pesin dey play hard to get.
  • Na yanga dat girl dey make, she go still fall for di guy later.  — (That girl is only playing hard to get, she will still date the guy later.)

Synonyms

shakara, denge

Translations

  • English: strutting, showoff, haughtily