yankee

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.)

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Translations

  • English: abroad
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