Emphasis has always been placed on these words for as long as Nigerian have existed, it is blasphemous to do otherwise. Especially by nosey neighbours or that one annoying seat partner in primary school.
1. Borrow Borrow
This is the only way to address someone that is always borrowing peoples things, maybe Nigerians think that if they say it twice, it’ll stop the person from borrowing.
2. Cry cry
You will be deep in your feels as a child, crying (sometimes unreasonably) and one yeye person will come and say “cry cry baby, you can cry oh” aunty Ngozi no are you mad?
3. Fear fear
Nigerians are very good at shaming people for being afraid of any little thing that scares them, and to be honest the fear of being called this has probably made people do a lot of stupid things.
4. Looku Looku
This one usually follows with a slap or an insult of sort. In fact, being called a looku looku is an insult.
5. Scatter scatter
This one is specially reserved for Nigerian mothers to their kids. They enter your perfectly disorganised room where you can at least find all your things, unlike that her glasses she is always looking for that is on top of her head and she’ll still open her mouth to say this.
6. Follow follow
If someone calls you follow follow its probably because you got into trouble after following someone to do something bad.
7. Bear bear
This one just doesn’t make sense because how do you get bear bear from beards? But if they don’t say that a person has a bear bear for emphasis when referring to someone growing a beard then it’s nothing to write home about.
8. Corner corner
This basically means that someone has done you dirty, played you wayo, taken you fi eediat.
9. Lie lie
This one is complicated because it can mean so many things. If a market woman says lie lie in a high pitch it means she is about to cheat you, if a child says it in a lower pitch you are being called a liar and if two people are gossiping and one person says it then they are simply expressing disbelief. The power of emphasis people.
10. Copy copy
This is when someone steals your intellectual property, style, girlfriend, slang e.t.c the gag is to say it twice for emphasis so they can acknowledge how unoriginal they are.
Help Zikoko keep making the content you love
More than ever, people are turning to Zikoko for stories that matter and content they love. But still, we, like many media organisations, are feeling the financial heat of these times. If you find us valuable, please make a contribution to help keep Zikoko zikoko-ing.
Thank you for your support.
We are also cool with Crypto.
