Nyaudzosingwi starting with O

Figurative Expressions

• obodoDescribes food that has been cooked excessively, i.e. overcooked.
• ochomoDescribes speaking without thinking, talking nonsense. Compare -bvojomo, -bvotomo.
• odoDescribes sleeping very deeply — sleeping the sleep of death itself.
• ombeUsed of putting a cloth or some other thing into water and leaving it there for a long time, i.e. soaking.
• omboDescribes skimming off what lies on the surface without going down to the bottom, as when mother skimmed the cream off the milk and poured it into the relish.
• omoDescribes taking honey out of a hive, or from wherever it is, when harvesting it.
• otsiDescribes the coughing one does when irritated by snuff taken through the nose or by something similar. Compare hetsu.