Meanings
jambite1
plural jambites
- Alternative letter-case form of Jambite.
'Stop talking like a jambite!' Uyi said, laughing at his friend's comparison.
2014, Eunice Sampson, The Distance Too Far, →ISBN, page 532 more examples
And I doubt if any jambite can get his legitimate space now because of lateness.
2002, Chinedu Ogoke, Under fire: a novel, page 25Chike thought, "If I would get married some day, it would be to no one else but this jambite by my side. So help me God!"
2003, Pat Ade Ayebola, Love Strokes
Jambite2
plural Jambites · alternative jambite
- NigeriaA first-year student at university; freshman.
I'm a 300 level law student and you're just a fucking Jambite and....
2013, Justin Udie, Campus Nightmares, →ISBN2 more examples
So Pamela was the much talked about new Jambite. She had been the talk of the campus since he arrived, but he hadn't had the opportunity of asking for her name from his friends who told him about her.
1993, Funmilayo Adegbite, Bonds of Destiny, page 48They first met when Tina was a Jambite and had just arrived on the Ife campus and Frankie was a final year student.
1997, Gbadebo Adeniyi, Barbwire, page 70
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jambite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jambite
“jambite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jambite. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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