Nyaudzosingwi starting with SH
Figurative Expressions
- shadabuDescribes sitting with the legs spread apart in an indecent manner.
- shadagu
- shakuIf something is shaku, it is so full that it spills over. Example: the granary was shaku with maize. Also describes falling on one's back.
- shanyaUsed of someone lying down in a way that shows exhaustion or pain; also of the falling of something that cannot stand on its own, and of a person or animal tumbling over and over.
- shapu
- shiThe slight sound made by a large snake, either as it moves or when it is angered.
- shiDescribes tying something tightly, as when a woman binds a bundle of grass fast.
- shidu
- shishishiDescribes the hardening of something that had been soft, such as sadza. Also describes tying something tightly.
- shishivaDescribes remaining fixed upon one thing, unwilling to be parted from it.
- shoche
- shodoDescribes filling a sack very full; compare shutu. Also describes being injured at the joints of the body where bones meet, through a misstep or through being trodden on.
- shokoshokoThe rattling noise made by groundnuts that have not yet been shelled.
- shozhono
- shukutuDescribes things burning without any flame. Also describes feeling weak in the body. Compare rukutu.
- shuraDescribes the crushing or squashing of things such as eggs or dry leaves.
- shura
- shutuDescribes 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.
- shwakataThe sound made by dry leaves when they are trodden on.
- shwape
- shwatuVariant spelling of "shwape".
- shwauDescribes the thorough drying out of trees or other things that were formerly soft and green. Once the rains had gone, the maize was left dried right out.
- shwe
- shwetaKuti shweta shweta describes the walk of a person who is not wearing anything. Kuti shwete shwete describes the walk of a person wearing tight-fitting clothes.
- shwi-iDescribes being completely full, as a bus packed full of people; also of slamming on the brakes suddenly.