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Shege

🇳🇪 Niger Slang
Added Aug 03, 2025 · 3 definitions
TOP DEFINITION

Shege definition 1

Literally 'bastard,' but youth use shege playfully to mean a mischievous person or as an expletive like 'damn!'

"That shege ate all the food! or just Shege! Yaron nan ya tsere. (Damn! That boy ran off.)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 03, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Shege definition 2

Stress/Suffering/Hard times (Suffering or stress)

"This country dey show we shege (This country is stressing us)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 10, 2025
DEFINITION 3

Shege definition 3

Shege, zagi (Bastard, insult)

"Ka bar shege din nan (Leave that bastard)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

Word Details

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🇳🇪 Niger
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3 community definitions
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August 2025

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Shege 🇬🇭 Ghana

Stress/Suffering/Hard times (Suffering or stress)

"This country dey show we shege (This country is stressing us)"
Shewe 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

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"Shewe rangu (my girlfriend)"

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Shege 🇬🇭 Ghana

Stress/Suffering/Hard times (Suffering or stress)

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