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shutu

Shona Definition

Kuti shutu kunyarara munhu akatsamwa, zvokuti anenge asingadi zvokutaudzwa. Murume akanonoka kusvika pamba, ndokuwana mudzima akangoti shutu. Kuti shutu kuzara kwezvinhu, mungava musaga kana pamwewo.

English Translation

Describes an angry person's silence — being so sullen that they want nobody to speak to them; e.g. a man who came home late and found his wife sitting in silence. Also used of things being packed full, as in a sack or elsewhere.

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