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Revision as of 14:37, 22 July 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English: yankee
Pronunciation
- jàNkí
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 31107
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Noun
yankee: abroad -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Any small chance wey I get, na yankee I dey enter. — no translation
- Dis na anoder way wey people dey call America. (Proper Noun)
- Dat guy don tear go Yankee o. — (NSC_Emeka_2020, That guy has gone to America.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: abroad