Nyaudzosingwi starting with PF

Figurative Expressions

• pfaDescribes gripping something soft firmly.
• pfa pfaDescribes pouring water in short bursts — letting it run out briefly, then shutting it off and opening it again.
• pfa pfa raThe sound made when fatty things burn, or when they are right in the fire.
• pfachaDescribes a person's sudden, unexpected arrival at a place.
• pfacharaDescribes the manner of walking of a person dressed in torn, ragged clothes.
• pfachuDescribes water splashing and scattering far off, as when something is thrown into water that has collected somewhere.
• pfakanyaDescribes a movement of the body showing signs of life in a person, or in an animal that was thought to be dead or asleep.
• pfakanyuVariant spelling of "pfakanya".
• pfapfanyuDescribes biting into a large piece of tender meat.
• pfarapfataDescribes the flapping and thrashing of a chicken or bird that is dying.
• pfari pfariDescribes the thrashing about of an animal or bird that is at the point of death.
• pfau pfauDescribes the thrashing or flapping about of an animal or bird that is dying.
• pfazuDescribes cutting off a small piece of something.
• pfeDescribes a thing having gone into some place.
• pfekecheThe sound made when a person walks over dry leaves.
• pfemveketeVariant spelling of "undundu".
• pfetse
• pfi pfiUsed of people laughing while trying to stifle or conceal their laughter.
• pfichiri pfichiriDescribes repeated startled jerking or twitching, as a cow does when it first begins to be milked.
• pfichuDescribes quietly letting out a foul-smelling gas — breaking wind silently.
• pfiki pfikiDescribes putting oneself in a concealed place; to hide oneself away.
• pfikuDescribes the onset of weeping, when a person's tears begin to flow and their breath comes in gasps.
• pfizuDescribes a person looking like one who is dead, especially after an accident and injury, or after seeing something terrifying. Also describes a person being thoroughly full after eating.
• pfoDescribes striking a person in the face with a fist.
• pfo pfo pfoThe sound of air being pumped into a tyre with a pump that pumps hard.
• pfocheDescribes stuffing one's mouth full of food. Also used of speaking things that have no bearing on the matter under discussion.
• pfochoDescribes running away in flight, especially when one has been overpowered or fears being overpowered by the one being fled from.
• pfodoDescribes sleeping very deeply, so that whatever happens one may fail to hear it. Also describes striking someone in the face with a fist, or pinching a person painfully.
• pfodogo
• pfonyeDescribes filling the mouth with food; also cramming things into something, forcing them in so they fit. Used of clothing, it means tucking a shirt into trousers or a blouse into a skirt.
• pforiDescribes sleeping exceedingly deeply, to the point of forgetting what is going on outside. Also describes going to some place such as a forest or an unfamiliar area and becoming lost.
• pforiworiDescribes the piercing of something as it goes into thin skin or into some other soft thing.
• pfoveDescribes striking or punching something so that it is left dented inwards and damaged.
• pfozoVariant spelling of "fozo".
• pfuDescribes the expelling of mucus or of dust that is in the nose.
• pfu-uDescribes giving off a smell that makes the place where one is stink.
• pfuchaDescribes filling a container with grain; filling things up so full that some spills over.
• pfucheDescribes giving off a smell that offends those who are near you.
• pfuchuVariant spelling of "pfichi".
• pfuduguDescribes removing a cloth or grass that had covered or wrapped something, leaving it exposed.
• pfudunuDescribes a knife coming off from where it was fastened, working itself loose. Compare -fundunu.
• pfudzunuVariant spelling of "pfudunu".
• pfugadaDescribes bending the knees to show respect to an elder whom one is greeting or handing something to. Also describes folding the front legs, as a goat does when drinking water.
• pfuguduVariant spelling of "pfudugu".
• pfugumuDescribes breaking a piece off something that is hard but crumbles away.
• pfukuchu pfukuchu
• pfukumuDescribes the rising of dust in a house where there has been feasting or dancing.
• pfumbaDescribes gripping something in the hand, the thing being so small that the hand closes right around it.
• pfumbuDescribes dust rising up because of a whirlwind or other things capable of lifting it.
• pfumbunuDescribes taking fruit out of the place where it had been put away to ripen.
• pfumburuVariant spelling of "pfumbu".
• pfumvumaUsed of a person sitting stooped over towards the ground, in a way that stirs pity.
• pfundumwaUsed of a person who keeps the mouth shut in anger; to sulk in silence.
• pfunga pfungaDescribes a small amount of smoke rising into the air.
• pfungeDescribes smelling very strongly.
• pfunhu
• pfunzunuUsed of something that was twisted or tied together coming undone or unravelling.
• pfupfuThe sound made by a hollow log as it burns inside.
• pfupfuduDescribes pieces breaking off a clod when it is thrown down.
• pfupfuri pfupfuriUsed of a person walking in a manner showing that the place they are in is frightening.
• pfupfuruThe sound a fowl makes when it has been cut with a knife and is dying: pfupfuru pfupfuru.
• pfuraDescribes the falling asleep of a person who is tired out.
• pfurunyuDescribes stripping the grass thatch off the roof of a house.
• pfurupfutuDescribes something whose body twitches convulsively, as a fowl does when it has been cut with a knife and is about to die, or a person seized by a fit.
• pfutuDescribes releasing a person or cattle that had been held in captivity or tied up.
• pfutunuUsed of something coming loose from where it was fastened or tied; of a wire or rope, slipping free of what it had been binding.
• pfuuDescribes passing something that is ahead of you, running so as to overtake it.
• pfyuDescribes the spitting and leaping of oil in a pot, as when cold water is added to it.