gisting

[Quinn C]

Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...

source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji

To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.

Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

[Quinn C]

Post by Quinn C
Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

Yes, it seems to be local:

| Nigerian
| Engage in chat or gossip.

<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>

I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Post by Quinn C

Post by Quinn C
Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

| Nigerian
| Engage in chat or gossip.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>
I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

Dozens and dozens of languages are spoken in Nigeria. It presumably
comes from one or several of them.

[Peter Moylan]

Post by Peter T. Daniels

Post by Quinn C

Post by Quinn C
Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

| Nigerian
| Engage in chat or gossip.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>
I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

Dozens and dozens of languages are spoken in Nigeria. It presumably
comes from one or several of them.

There's probably only one Nigerian English, though.

My ex-wife used to work for a medical interpreter service. On more than
one occasion she got a request from a hospital for an interpreter who
speaks African.

[CDB]

Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked. Ekene had
no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be
honest, I hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the
dictionary doesn't give me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

| Nigerian | Engage in chat or gossip.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>
I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

"Jesting"?

[Jerry Friedman]

Post by Quinn C

Post by Quinn C
Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

| Nigerian
| Engage in chat or gossip.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>
I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

Also a noun.

"gist n. news, more especially gossip /I have plenty of gist for you
today./

"gist v. to tell someone the news or the gossip /I will come and gist
you this afternoon. She gisted me fully/ More generally, v.i. gossip,
talk informally: /We were gisting till midnight/ Originally
student slang, but now used more widely"

http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/English/Nigerian%20English%20Dictionary.pdf

No etymology given, unlike many or all words from indigenous languages
in this draft dictionary. I suspect it's from English "gist".

[Quinn C]

Post by Jerry Friedman

Post by Quinn C

Post by Quinn C
Mary and Chika gisting in the kitchen while she cooked.
Ekene had no patience for talkative women ...
source: Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji
To me, "gisting" sounds like the opposite of talkative. To be honest, I
hadn't encountered it as a verb before, but the dictionary doesn't give
me more than "summarizing" either.
Ideas? The scene is in Nigeria.

| Nigerian
| Engage in chat or gossip.
<https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gist>
I'm still interested in how it got this meaning, though.

Also a noun.
"gist n. news, more especially gossip /I have plenty of gist for you
today./
"gist v. to tell someone the news or the gossip /I will come and gist
you this afternoon. She gisted me fully/ More generally, v.i. gossip,
talk informally: /We were gisting till midnight/ Originally
student slang, but now used more widely"
http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/English/Nigerian%20English%20Dictionary.pdf

Ah nice - this may be useful.

Although the next two words I wanted to look up weren't in there:

... I toasted her the way we all toasted the girls we liked--I
brought her FanYogo after class and escorted her to the gate ...

"You're finally chyking this girl?" he said. "Thank God. ..."

The meanings are pretty clear from context, but it would be nice to have
extra background.

<http://naijalingo.com/words/toast>
<http://naijalingo.com/words/chyke>

has meanings, but no etymology. "Toast" I can see as an extension of
"speaking in the honor of". "Chyke" looks like a borrowing.