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ma ọsò

Active verb

Ndebe script

- 

Meanings

  1. suck the teeth (in contempt, etc.)

    Active verb

Dialect & variants

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Ọ mara ọsò mgbe m gwara ya okwu.

— He sucked his teeth when I spoke to him.

Ị na-ama m ọsò?

— Are you sucking your teeth at me?

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