oga

A chief, employer, or superior.

Noun

  1. A chief, employer, or superior.
    • Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon. - 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah:

Origin

Etymology tree Yoruba ọ̀gábor. English oga Borrowed from Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).

Forms

ogas