My Favourite Igbo Insult is….
Alambalagada
It means You with Saggy Boobs
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Hello, can you please send the chronicles of the original assistant madam, (sugar baby) you saved ? Thanks a whole lot !
1st!!!!
abeg teach me more jor…so i can yab all ds igbo ppl that are always callin me names….
Ihu yi di ka nsi agbara catapault!
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Boo, you need help!
Lol, one more useful word in my igbo vocab 😉
hehe….going to add dt 2 my new igbo vocab
thats d kind of thing u’d learn sugabelly.
So Suga are you an ********gada? JJNOM
@Myne: LOL!!! I am proud to say that I am NOT an alambalagada. 😀
suga, abu m onye igbo. please what dialect is this??? Doesn’t read like igbo to me…
@poetically tinted:
This is Awka. It’s really old pre-colonial Igbo so I can totally see if you’re not familiar with it. Goodness knows there are lots of Igbo words that people don’t use anymore.
The Onitsha version is Alambogolo.
I don’t know any other dialects but I’ll see if I can find out for you.
Separating it helps though.
Ala + mbalagada
Ala + Mbogolo
Ala mbogolo sounds like upright or standing breast. Mbagolo is to ascend/climb.
Mgbada is to descend. What say you, Sugarbelly?
They’re not the same thing.
Mgbago (to climb up) and Mgbogolo are two totally different sounds and words.
Just because two words sound similar doesn’t mean they have similar meanings. That’s what homophones are.
Thanks..learnt new igbo