guoko
noun
fifty shillings.
Guoko is recorded for both five and fifty shillings. Check which amount is meant in the conversation.
Also five shillings.
Guoko is recorded for both five and fifty shillings. Check which amount is meant in the conversation.
Origins
The word’s earlier history is still under review.
Peter Githinji, Bazes and Their Shibboleths: Lexical Variation and Sheng Speakers’ Identity in Nairobi (2006), Section 4.2.1, denomination list.
Research study records guoko for fifty shillings in its Sheng material; this publication date is not a coinage date.
Chege Githiora, Sheng: peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole? (2002), printed 179.
Research study records guoko for five shillings in its Sheng material; this publication date is not a coinage date.
Examples
Guoko hapa ni shilingi tano.
Guoko here means five shillings.
Nipe guoko, yaani shilingi tano.
Give me guoko, meaning five shillings.
Nahitaji guoko tu: shilingi tano.
I only need guoko: five shillings.
Nauli ni guoko: shilingi tano.
The fare is guoko: five shillings.
Chenji ni guoko: shilingi tano.
The change is guoko: five shillings.
Guoko hapa ni shilingi hamsini.
Guoko here means fifty shillings.
Nipe guoko, yaani shilingi hamsini.
Give me guoko, meaning fifty shillings.
Bei ni guoko: shilingi hamsini.
The price is guoko: fifty shillings.
Nimetuma guoko: shilingi hamsini.
I have sent guoko: fifty shillings.
