wôrô-wôrô

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a Mande language.

Pronunciation

Noun

wôrô-wôrô m (plural wôrô-wôrôs or wôrô-wôrô)

  1. (Ivory Coast) shared taxi
    • 2002 November 11, Jérome Aloko-N'Guessan, “Taxis woro-woro à Abidjan et résonance communale à Koumassi”, in Actes de CODATU‎, archived from the original on 5 February 2020:
    • 2009, “G-Playa Party I”, in King Of South‎, performed by Lil perso:
      Ma conquête à moi est déja positionnée
      Crangba et prête à tout me déballer
      De gauche à droite y a encore des gomis qui bougent
      L’horizon bondée de monde démontre des cuirs qui font des sauts en sacadé
      Je suis wôrô
      Les babis repartent en wôrô wôrô
      My conquest is already positioned for me
      Present and ready for being unwrapped wholly for me
      From right and left there are yet boogying girlfriends
      The horizon is full of baggage showing meat, jumping and jerking
      I get laid
      The babies leave in shared taxis.
    • 2017 October 30, “Société: Quand Port-bouet se réveille sous les Klaxons des Wôrô Wôrô”, in Côte d’Ivoire News‎:
    • 2017 November 5, Boni Amlaman, “Alépé : Une bagarre entre deux chauffeurs de wôrô-wôrô fait un mort”, in Fratmat‎:
    • 2020 March 22, Salif D. Cheickna, “Covid-19/Gbaka, Wôrô-wôrô : Les transporteurs adoptent des recommandations à appliquer dès le 23 mars”, in Fratmat‎:

References

  • Lafage, Suzanne (2002) Le lexique français de Côte d’Ivoire (Le français en Afrique; Nº 16 et 17)‎, Nice: Institut de Linguistique française – CNRS
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