agabagebe
Appearance
Yoruba
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From à- (“nominalizing prefix”) + gàbà (“to move along clumsily”) + gùn (“to climb”) + ebè (“hill”), literally “Moving along clumsily and climbing many hills”, likely an ideophonic description of the many arguments and excuses one regarded as a hypocrite will make
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]àgàbàgebè
Derived terms
[edit]- alágàbàgebè (“hypocrite”)