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Shona Definition
Kana munhu akatenga imbwa inosvikomuchengetera musha wake pasina zvaingataura pamusoro patenzi wayo kwayakabva. Asi kana ari munhu, anotaura zvakanaka nezvakaipa zvaaiitirwa achazondotaurazve saizvozvo kwaanozoenda kana obvapo.
English Translation
A dog that changes hands simply guards its new home and never tells anything about how its old master treated it. A human servant is different: he talks about the good and bad he received at his last place, and will talk the same way about this one once he leaves.
Cultural Context
“Applied to a servant or employee who carries talk about former or present masters from household to household.”
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