AJUWAHYA: While I was growing up I used to ask my dad the meaning of this word (cos I thought it was Hausa) as I heard it often from the mouth of all my serving NYSC siblings and neighbours. Even after graduating from the university it took me years to come to know the real meaning. If you’re a serving corps member or a prospective one, here is the meaning of that word—AS YOU WERE! Am sure our senior brothers who served the Nigerian Army in the colonial era obviously could not understand what the Oyibo man Commander was saying during parades so they just coined it as they imagined. So, it is AS YOU WERE, as in STAY AS YOU WERE and not AJUWAHYA.

DOMOT: If you grew up in the city or its suburbs you definitely know the word. Abeg, nothing like ‘domot’ for Oyiboman language. The actual word is DOOR MOUTH. I hope your mother didn’t fight because of domot for that una face-me-I-face-you house for Lagos. Lol.

SOFRI: You hear it when our own Flavour N’Abania says in his song Ada Ada. He sings, ‘babe sofri dey cool mu temper oo, Ada’. The word is SOFTLY and nothing like ‘sofri’ in the English lexicon.

COMOT: Am sure by now you can work it out by yourself. This word does not exist in the English dictionary; it is simply a corruption of the two English words COME OUT. But you know nah, 9ja no get time for long thing! Lol

OSHEBE: Chai! This one is the most painful for me. If I tell you what it means you’d never ever say it again in your life! You remember the last evening when a car ran into a gutter and a group of guys were hired to come and lift the tyres off the trap. Each of you held the car chassis and someone shouted OSHEBE, and everyone lifted?
The white colonials saw Black Africans as Apes (but that have a sort of amazing physical strength). When they fix the black slaves to labour, they stand sentry beside them with a whip and simply command their savages saying, APES OBEY! Now, you see? OSHEBE simply means APES OBEY. Our elder brothers and sisters never heard the words right; neither did they even know what that means.

You can add your own.

More dey come.

Need I tell you that ABEG means I BEG?

And NAK means KNOCK? You remember Terry G's Nak you Akpako?
Although there's a word as knack, but this means far a different sense than the 9ja nak means

Fanimorous

derespect: Fanimorous

Honestly, I've not heard this one for the first time. Doesn't exist in our everyday pidgin here. Abi na for your area wey dem dey use am alone? Tell us what it means please.

1. "Helma" is the corrupted version of the word "Headman". This originated in the middle belt (Jos) during the hey days of tin mining.
2. "Angul" instead "Angle".
3. "Comon" from "Come on".

mazado: 1. "Helma" is the corrupted version of the word "Headman". This originated in the middle belt (Jos) during the hey days of tin mining.
2. "Angul" instead "Angle".
3. "Comon" from "Come on".

I never heard about the 'Helma' word for the first time before now. Thanks for that addition.
As for Common, what is funny is that it's even a curse word here!

sкчscrαρεr™:
fanimorous"—a neologism formed by adding the English suffix "-ous" to the Yorùbá wordfanimnra, meaning to be intimate with someone, or to draw something¡

Oh, thanks for that addendum

skyscraperTM:
fanimorous"—a neologism formed by adding the English suffix "-ous" to the Yorùbá wordfanimnra, meaning to be intimate with someone, or to draw something¡

What about attractive, can fanimorous be translated as attractive?

APES OBEY, thunder faya whitemen!

godoluwa:
APES OBEY, thunder faya whitemen!

Sir I sent you a mail...!

Fanimorous

oh my Gawd! This is bokoharamous