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Q Letter Words for Nigerian English
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NIGERIAN ENGLISH DICTIONARY
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Nigerian Word |
Continuous Meaning |
ENGLISH NIGERIAN |
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quack |
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to tackle or trip {e.g. Man, you don't know football, you just quack people for no reason; As Bolton always quack Arsenal} |
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qualitative |
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quality The thing is qualitative It is of good quality |
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quams |
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problems or headache {e.g Okay, you win! no quams} |
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quanta |
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trouble, problem {e.g. see me see quanta; I don enter quanta with my old man} |
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quarrel |
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to argue; I quarrelled him; I argued with him |
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Queen's English |
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Standard Nigerian English in contrast to Broken English. |
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quelea {bird} |
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black-faced dioch, a major agricultural pest in semi-arid Nigeria {Scientific name Quelea quelea} |
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quench |
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switch off {e.g Chioma, kerosene price dey high, I beg quench dat stove; put an end to something or someone} |
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quench |
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to stop, to turn off, to extinguish; The thing has quenched; It has stopped. Quench it! Drink gari to quench the hunger; Turn it off. colonial era story of someone buying an electric stove/oven {then a novelty} just before going on leave, and asking cook on his return how it was working: reply "Fine! Fire never quench!" |
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query |
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to question intensively {over a bureaucratic misdeed} The headmaster queried him seriously |
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quick quick |
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quickly |
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quite |
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qualifier in the sense of 'very' but used with negatives see 'not quite' |
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quite an age! |
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I haven't seen you for ages! |
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