Gbese

🇳🇬 Nigeria
Added July 17, 2025
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Debt or big trouble (literally “load”).
by KASINARY Admin Elder · July 17, 2025
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A Yoruba term meaning debt, now used in Pidgin too for owing money or being in a financial fix. Carry gbese means to accumulate debt. It can also imply causing trouble (figuratively 'problem').
"December enjoyment don leave plenty gbese for January. (Meaning: Holiday partying has left me in a lot of debt come January.)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · August 02, 2025
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Literally 'debt.' Slang-wise, to carry gbese means to get in trouble or owe a lot (including embarrassment). Also a famous dance move
"No go dance legwork for office o, you wan carry gbese? (Don't go dancing legwork in the office, you want to incur trouble?)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · August 03, 2025
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Gbɛ̀sɛ́ (Proverbe/Proverb)
"Gbɛsɛ ɖo nufin mɛ (Les proverbes contiennent la sagesse/Proverbs contain wisdom)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · August 05, 2025
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Debt/Owing money (Debt)
"I dey owe gbese everywhere (I owe debts everywhere)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · August 10, 2025
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