Nigerian words, Okada, Danfo, Buka, others added to Oxford dictionary

The labour of our heroes, both past and present, are beginning to pay off as Nigerian words find its way into the newly updated Oxford English Dictionary, OED.

The announcement was made on Tuesday in an official publication by Oxford.

"The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s," OED said.

You can now find words like Buka, Danfo, K-leg, chop and many more others in the newly updated Oxford dictionary.

Here you can find a list of the new Nigerian words and senses added to the OED in this update:

agric, adj. & n.

barbing salon, n.

buka, n.

bukateria, n.

chop, v./6

chop-chop, n./2

danfo, n.

to eat money, in eat, v.

ember months, n.

flag-off, n.

to flag off in flag, v.

gist, n./3

gist, v./2

guber, adj.

Kannywood, n.

K-leg, n.

mama put, n.

next tomorrow, n. & adv.

non-indigene, adj. & n.

okada, n.

to put to bed, in put, v.

qualitative, adj.

to rub minds (together) in rub, v./1

sef, adv.

send-forth, n.

severally, adv.

tokunbo, adj.

zone, v.

zoning, n.