Nyaudzosingwi starting with K

Figurative Expressions

• kwindimaUsed of a person whose face is tense rather than relaxed, wearing a frightening expression.
• kwindingwiDescribes the look of the sky outside when it is heavy with clouds and about to rain.
• kwindingwi kwindingwiThe sound of a drum being beaten. When the dance began we heard the drum going kwindingwi kwindingwi.
• kwingwiriDescribes something that stands raised up higher than the places surrounding it.
• kwinya kwinyaDescribes a person walking about with no clothes on. A madman went kwinya kwinya walking down the road.
• kwipuDescribes striking someone with a whip that coils around the one being beaten. He struck the beast kwipu with the whip. Also describes the springing of a set trap, as a spring trap does.
• kwirindindiUsed of a person who is sullen and scowling, unwilling to make conversation.
• kwishuVariant spelling of "gwishu".
• kwitiDescribes suddenly turning up at or entering a place unexpectedly. Father suddenly appeared kwiti from Harare when we were not expecting him, so that he found us lounging about with our closest friends.
• kwitikwitiDescribes the movement of many people arriving at a place, as refugees arriving at a country's border. Also used of many people or things moving down a slope.
• kwitiriDescribes someone turning up suddenly and quite unexpectedly. Compare kwiti.
• kwiyoThe cry of a hen.
• kwizhizhiUsed of having rough, coarse skin, or of looking unattractive.
• kwizuDescribes scrubbing or wiping something vigorously. He gave his shoes a hard kwizu kwizu with the brush, slipped them onto his feet pfe pfe, and was out the door dhugu.