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
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
Derived forms
Synonyms
- 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
Antonyms
- 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
Translations
- English: abroad