yankee

Naija

Alternative forms

• fonsi 0.94 7, featuring 0.92 31, despacito 0.91 7, iyanya 0.90 8, bieber 0.90 21, vert 0.88 5, kesh 0.88 7, julia 0.88 12, bruno 0.87 30

Etymology

Borrowed from English yankee

Pronunciation

• jàNkí

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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?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Any small chance wey I get, na yankee I dey enter.  — no translation

2. 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.)

Synonyms

• jand , away

Translations

• English: abroad