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Wakuna's Cameroonian Pidgin - English Dictionary
If you feel that here's a word missing and it should be added to WCPE Dictionary,
please let me know about it.
Same goes if you feel you can provide a better meaning of a particular word.
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W X
Y Z
| Canda | Skin of mammal (animals and humans) |
| Charge | To lose one’s temper |
| Charger | Someone who easily loses his/her temper |
| Cosh | To insult (v), insult (n) |
| Don | Have (Past tense) e.g. you don chop? |
| Drum | To hold hair in a puff |
| E | He/she - we do not differenciate between male and female in this case. |
| Fine | Pretty, beautiful, good |
| Gist | Information (n), gossip (n, v), chat(v), converse (v) e.g. let's gist |
| Go | will e.g. I go kill you |
| Headtie | Scarf (for the hair) |
| Helele | Exceptional, out of this world e.g. shoe for foot na helele |
| Kaba (Kaba-ngondo) | Cameroonian type of dress, usually airy and very loose-fitting. It could be sleeveless, short or long-sleeved. |
| Land | To arrive e.g. I don land |
| Mash | To step on, trample e.g. no mash ma foot |
| Okrika | Second-hand. Heard it’s a place in Nigeria where second-hand things are sold |
| Paddyman | Pal, bosom friend |
| Perm | To plan something e.g. I di perm that match |
| Sabi | Know e.g. na you sabi |
| Sample | To deal with someone e.g. dat man sample me |
| Sey | That e.g. you feel sey you be who? |
| Tori | Talk, news e.g. abeg leave dat tori |
| Watchnite | Night watch, security guard |
| Wey | Who e.g the person wey e get dis pot |
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