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That’s a really good word to describe mine. She keeps leaving and coming back, But those games are over for me. she will reap what she sewed this time. And when she tries running back in the following few months she is in for reality check that is gonna haunt her forever. She did this and I tried to warn her. You can only screw and walk over someone so many times before they let go
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Mines avoidant too, which imo is a made up bullshit word for “left your ass” and blame it on “attachment issue”
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Finally a positive offering 
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Unaquivically another first one word!!!!! Ty
Posted by Makinde Azeez.
on 15 November, 2014 under Talk Zone
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She got pregnant and i told her not to abort it but she refuses….. In the process of abortion she passed away……… I really missed her, RIP shaaa……
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i really do feel for her…Rip
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U day fool ur sef or u forced her to abort mumu in dis word
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Owuya!na xo una dey take lie deceive gals!I know u pushed her to do that n pls stop beating ard bushes!guys self
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Bad girl misssssssss fucker
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she is a very good girl to me and i can’t ever forget her
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Shey.lolzz english is a problem
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Even some naijalodites get problem ah one world o ga gan
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Olodo she Is so good. Den why is she ur ex.
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She’s unique en intelligent infact I’d never see a gal lyk her b4 buh God knw d best sha
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Lmfao that’s how they fail
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So Decent, Cute and smart
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Money frek,and smart flirt.
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Lol olosho ni joor bt she is madt on bed she fucks like crazey lol
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she’s a lying twat! even the devil the fear her self.
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Gosh….she make sense pass anything….nah me fuck up sha…..life still goes on…
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na everytime u dey comment
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She’s good 2 me nd i love her so much.
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Dear… Shez d typ i can neva 4get. We’r stl gud friends tho
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My ex is very intelligent.if I had another chance, I’d marry HER
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she’s pretty by me but too anxious of money
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Bloody liar, na abatenijee ni joor
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She is lovely and sometimes on my mind
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My ex is a luvin nd carin person
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Childish bt I still love her
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Childish bt I still love her
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Som pple na olodo, dem say 1 word,na story dem dey write.
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Laffing in 3d…haba guy u 4nny sha
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Shyy!! English na w**e for 9ja. One word dey said..Lwkmd
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SheHasLongNeckAndINeedAReplacement…….that’s one word
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Oloriburuku ni & too like sex n money
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Tanterlizing Sintorino(R.I.P
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She 4 kill me bet i excap d deat
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Lwmd..una comment don make me forget to comment o 😀
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Choi??? I don 4qet wetin i wan ryt… knt STP laffinq tho…
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Hallot+tief_lier=gólddiger
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she like f**k too much,can u help 2 describe her in 1 word
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my ex lover can or will do anything for money, which makes her unbelievable
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I really lov dat gal ,she’s gud,sexy,attractiv and….but….she just went and marry ,fa wey gbajie mu aka
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Oga,dem say word no talk story 4 d gods
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She sabi cheat eh nd little gift dey freak her, [email protected] she dey behave well. Bt God knwz de best Shaa.
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Which one i won comment about self
They are all nice but na me never ready -
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she a wonderful wife she always make me happy
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HEART BREAKER AND INGREAT(HEAT TO REMEMBER HER)
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@johndasoba she go don 4ku up wella no just think am life goes on
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My own grlfrnd she is a prostitude.
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She used to kisst me 4 an hour.
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Ashawoooooooooooooooooooooooo…………..!!!!!
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Ogbanjayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!…
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Ashawo…..hanging arlound wit sugar daddies…………godforbid dat kind of gal in my life tym again
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una wan kill me wit laffter…..na d ogbanje sweet me pass
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O boy! Grammar hard o. Na when word turn phrase and sentences?
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Lwkmd.I love reading nijaloaded cos de comments re always funny. De always make me forget my troubles. My ex in one word is PRETENDER!
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So loving and caring……doesn’t want antin to hurt me
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She ix good in doggy o yea
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beautiful item 4 entertainment
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Bloody liar and wicked,2nd one,nagging and over jealous.
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i cnt stp lafin..lol..wel my ex in 1 word ‘beautiful’
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well,4 me one word for him is “confused”coz he is a flirt & does not knw what he is doing.
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Idiot infat na thunda go fire her anywere she day
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Ha! Olopo ewo n ti epe o! Amu n je amu ni! Ewo ni oni bo n be!. What if she later become your house wife. What will you do.
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wish we ar bak in love @ajike. harddeyy
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Talkative,shouts a lot&money frek
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I wish i hav an ex t describe. i no fit laph f una coment finish
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Even some naijalodites get problem ah one word o ga gan
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In life people don’t understand common ‘ENGLISH’. ONE WORD and some people are making sentence. Its too bad.
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To Hell Wit Her Nd Her Mum
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My ex was da bomb#boom!!!
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My ex was da bomb# boom!!!
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Was this Question for guys alone abi Girls no dey get ex,. Then who are the guys breaking up with?. #angryface
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He’s cool,nice,he’s smart,handsome,loving n caring n above all he is sweet
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Still single,wit 1’s truly q***n
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Still single,wit 1’s truly q***n
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Abeg Wu get BB charger for here..
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Abeg Wu get BB charger for here..
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I will always appreciate her no matter wot ,,, bkos she was once loved by me ,,,
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Broke nigga wey i dey manage
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Hello guyz I need ya attention plsss. Sum guys are talkin rubbish abt dere ex.. Dnt tell me u neva had sex wif her. To all dose pyscotic guyz fuck ya anus..anyways shout out to all the ex d called silly names..God knws why u left dem. Dnt give a fuck
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adorable…….really miss d hell out of her
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Abeg make una live pple make dem talk dia mind , make una live me for one world
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Naa Waa oo naa only guys dey dis naijaloaded….ladies wher u naa dey naa make u naa comment nah oo…..guys ar so so so wicked, betrayal, fool, cheater, lazy, dribbler, ungrateful Infact to hell wit guys.
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A Peacock, tha bitch is fuckingly proud
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no 1 Ex- beautiful
no 2 Ex- greedy
no 3 Ex- sexiest
no 4 Ex- sexy
no 5 Ex sluggish
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*B* LADOGAN ANY BODY CAN TOGISI NI JOO
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just a gat a big buttock and big boobs haa asife ile word
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i blem my self 4 knowing dat olosho girl
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as beautiful as a pigeon but her behaviour is ugly as a gorilla
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“Basically anyone can be an ex,” says Corey, 26. “If we dated, you’re my ex. If you used to retweet me a lot but stopped, you’re also my ex.” Caroline, 30, uses a similarly broad definition of the term for the sake of expediency. “I just call everyone my ex until it’s time to elaborate because, yeah, there isn’t a word for this. ‘Ex’ rolls off the tongue easier than ‘someone I dated for three months, but we were never official.’”
If you find this confusing, you’re not alone.
Language only works if all parties involved in a conversation agree in at least a general way on what words mean, which is why the persistence of “ex” as a catch-all for everything from “that one-night stand” to “my former wife” seems due for a shakeup. Everyone has their own definition of who rises to the level of an ex, and those ideas vary so widely that the word circles back around to mean absolutely nothing in casual conversation.
I expected millennials in particular to tend toward “ex” elasticity because a generation that’s delaying marriage more than any other probably has more not-quite-relationships than it has words to describe them. But plenty of the 35-and-under crowd were strict in their conceptions. Elizabeth, 33, doesn’t even apply the term to her past serious boyfriends. “I only use it for my ex-fiancé. For others I dated (even for a year or more), I’ll say, ‘My serious high school boyfriend,’ or ‘This guy I dated in college.’” Meredith, 31, uses the word sparingly to avoid potential embarrassment. “I live in fear that some dude I had a thing with will pop out of nowhere if I call them an ex and be like, ‘Uh, we weren’t dating,’ so I shamefacedly say, ‘Dude I had a thing with’ to describe many mistakes.”
Meanwhile, my own use of “ex” indicates a level of acrimony. No matter how briefly we were involved, if you caused me trouble, you’re my ex. If we parted amicably, I tend to reach for “a guy I used to date,” even if we were living together. When I was in my early 20s, everyone was “a guy I used to date” because “ex” felt like it implied emotional failure to which I wasn’t ready to admit in casual company.
The word “ex” means so much that it effectively means nothing.
And so, we need more vocabulary — a word for people we used to hook up with, and one for people we dated but with whom we were never exclusive, at the very least — in order to obviate the need for clumsy descriptors of specific situations that could easily be replaced with a couple additions to the vernacular.
Handy slang terms aren’t something young people often desire. The labyrinth of youth culture on the internet evolves at hyper speed, spitting out new concepts and phrases like a self-referential perpetual motion machine as soon as social culture cleaves far enough from tradition to make space for something new. When a word or phrase has the right combination of cleverness and usefulness, the barrier for it to become part of the popular lexicon is lower than it’s ever been because the internet nullifies distance between speakers and crowdsourced references like Urban Dictionary circumvent traditional linguistic gatekeepers. “Sexting,” for example, became a common term basically as soon as picture messaging between phones was widely possible; “selfies” had a name as soon as they had a prominent place on the internet; “ghosting” was a thing once we realized scads of people were getting dumped by simply never being spoken to again.
So why are the fuckbuddy who moved to an inconvenient part of town and the cheating spouse you divorced both still just exes in the popular imagination?
This is the point at which I was hoping to get cute, coin a few terms, solve a rhetorical problem you didn’t know you had and reap the clicks that go along with being on the bleeding edge of social phenomena. Except I’ve been thinking about this for weeks, and not a single passably useful option has popped into my head.
I asked everyone I interviewed if they had any slang terms they used with friends to refer to former hookups or casual romances that have since ended, and beyond a couple joke responses, nobody had anything. The opacity of “ex” began to feel less like a bug and more like a feature. Otherwise, someone surely would’ve gotten to this before me, right?
For clarification, I spoke with Indiana University’s Michael Adams, an English language historian and lexicographer. “‘Ex’ starts out in the early 19th century for anyone who’s no longer a part of something he or she once was — it was a general term,” he tells me. “If you used to be a Roman Catholic, someone could refer to you as an ‘ex.’ This general sense persists well into the 20th century, though I haven’t noticed it much recently, maybe because of the rise of romantic (or ex-romantic) ‘ex.’”
In that sense, maybe the way we use “ex” in so-called hookup culture is truer to the word’s original meaning than it ever has been in romantic use. The implication is simply that someone once took part in something, but no longer does. What, exactly, they were taking part in depends on context and the speaker’s willingness to elaborate. If they don’t want to, ex can stand on its own. “Practically all adjectives have vagueness built in: How tall? How thin? How high?” Adams says. “We hedge or distract ourselves and others from specificity, because, as you say, being direct about it might prove uncomfortable. When we get tired of describing, we’ll fill the lexical gap.”
That doesn’t mean the internet’s amateur lexicographers aren’t on the case of “ex,” though. As Adams points out, Urban Dictionary’s top definition for the term gets at the exact paradox of how we refer to the people we used to fuck, love or maybe both: “1) Someone who will have sex with you when nobody else will. 2) Someone who won’t speak to you even when everyone else will.”
And maybe that’s just fine.
After all, if the internet at large is letting the word stand, there has to be a reason.
Which brings me to a 2016 Psychology Today post about how divorced women commonly used “ex” to refer to their former husbands instead of their names in order to depersonalize a traumatic change in the relationship. If the thing that hurt you isn’t specific, if it’s just the past, then maybe it’s done hurting. In that way, maybe “ex” is perfect. The listener makes assumptions based on their own conception of the word, which means the person talking gets to duck for cover. Or maybe it sucks to admit the person you’re still talking about was never your girlfriend anyway, but the vagueness of calling her an ex provides a plausible deniability, retroactively conferring upon her enough status to justify the space she takes up in your head.
In other words, maybe for once in our exceedingly over-verbalized lives, specificity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.