yauyauu
Yoruba
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editDerived from a reduplication of yàúù, from English Yahoo!. Compare English Yahoo boy.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityàúyàúù
- Internet fraudster
- 2015, Dayo Akanmu, quoting Babalọlá, “New Yoruba Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions: A New Mode of Communicating New Concepts and Ideas on Radio”, in Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism, :
- Ẹ̀yin yàtọ̀ sáwọn ọmọ yàúyàúù tó ń ya bébà lóní yanya
- You are different from the Yahoo boys (Internet fraudsters) who spend extravagantly
- user of Yahoo!
References
edit- Akanmu, Dayo (2015) “New Yoruba Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions: A New Mode of Communicating New Concepts and Ideas on Radio”, in Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism[1], volume 5, number 1, School of Languages, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Nigeria,