gwọ ụla
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
keep oneself awake by using kolanuts, drugs, etc.
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Examples
dibìà ọkpùlụ ōgwọọ!
— praise name for a native doctor (literally doctor who cures as soon as he sips). Native doctors sometimes sip or chew certain medicines in the mouth, then spit it on any part of the patient's body, or in the air, following this sometimes by incantations
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