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Yoruba
Etymology
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
Noun
àgàbàgebè
- hypocrisy
- Synonym: àbòsí
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