• slang, Sheng is mainly used by the youth and is part of popular culture in Kenya. It also evolves rapidly, as words are moved into and out of slang use...
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  • Provinces of China (省), administrative divisions called shěng in Mandarin Sheng slang, a slang dialect of the Swahili language Cheng (disambiguation) Zheng...
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  • Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian slang system; 19th century Swedish (e.g. the word fika, which means approximately "coffee break"). Sheng (e.g. ngware becomes rengwa)...
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  • on the entertainment, culture, craft occupations and development of Sheng slang in Kenya. Reggae music in Kenya is viewed as a powerful agent of both...
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  • police-related slang terms exist for police officers. These terms are rarely used by the police themselves. Police services also have their own internal slang and...
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    commonly performed in Sheng, a mixture Swahili, English and various local dialects. The word "Genge" itself comes from Sheng slang, meaning "a group or...
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    Settler Swahili – Swahili pidgin from Kenya and Zambia Sheng slang – Nairobi urban-based youth slang Dada Masiti (c. 1810s–15 July 1919), Kenyan poet Shaaban...
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  • sub-culture street language for the different denominations. Using the street slang (sheng), urbanites often amalgamate Swahili, English, and their mother-tongue...
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  • Called a "two-six" or "twenty-sixer" in Canada. Also known as a Botii [ Sheng slang (derived from Italian Bottiglia) > "Bottle"] or Mzinga [ Swahili > "Cannon"]...
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  • Kwani? (derived from the Sheng slang so what?) is a prominent African literary magazine headquartered in Kenya. It has been hailed as "undoubtedly the...
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  • coloniser's language is a sign of the success of enslavement." Language portal Sheng slang Engsh Nyaggah, Lynette Behm. "Cross-linguistic influence in Kenyan English:...
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  • Cant (language) (redirect from French slang)
    criminal jargon. An argot (English: /ˈɑːrɡoʊ/; from French argot [aʁɡo] 'slang') is a language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding...
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  • sheng nus as "a social force to be reckoned with" and others have argued the term should be taken as a positive to mean "successful women". The slang...
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    style of music in Kenya. Artists rap in English, Swahili, the local Sheng slang or even in vernacular language like kikuyu (G.rongi), Kisii (Smallz Lethal)...
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  • singles, "Rongai" and "Kasyoki Wa Mitumba". She writes and sings in Sheng slang. Serro started writing music in 2014 and released her first single, "Rongai"...
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  • 3S may refer to: 3S, for single, seventies/1970s, stuck, a slang form of sheng nu, a derogatory Chinese term referring to unmarried women in their mid...
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    different. As in English, many Mandarin Chinese slang terms involve the genitalia or other sexual terms. Slang words for the penis refer to it literally, and...
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  • equivalent of "spinster" or "Sheng nu". Harold and Maude: A couple consisting of two partners between whom there is a large age gap; slang term originates from...
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    similar context in the English-speaking world. In modern China, the slang term sheng nu describes "leftover women". Since the Middle Ages, women had been...
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    Githeri (section Slang)
    added mid-cooking when the maize has softened. murrum murro – Swahili slang (Sheng) for githeri due to its similar appearance to murram roads; popular among...
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  • Young artists often contribute towards the spread of new terms, such as 'Sheng slang' words (a combination of Swahili and English). HIV/AIDS is a major cause...
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    distributed, with a simplified version of the constitution translated in Sheng (slang). One response from the public was: "[I] .. thought that the constitution...
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  • pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant. In colloquial usage of the term...
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  • Shengmu (redirect from Sheng Mu)
    title of the Blessed Virgin in Chinese Christianity in Chinese internet slang, a sarcastic, possibly pejorative term for "bleeding-heart" politically...
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    Glans penis (redirect from Bellend (slang))
    PMC 6194789. PMID 30386085. Hsu, Geng-Long; Hsieh, Cheng-Hsing; Wen, Hsien-Sheng; Chen, Yi-Chang; Chen, Shyh-Chyan; Mok, Martin S. (2003-11-12). "Penile...
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    17487/RFC9485. RFC 9485. Retrieved 11 March 2024. Cezar Câmpeanu; Kai Salomaa & Sheng Yu (Dec 2003). "A Formal Study of Practical Regular Expressions". International...
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  • Dragon Lady (category Slang terms for women)
    sometimes applied to persons who lived before the term became part of American slang in the 1930s. "Dragon Lady" is one of two main stereotypes used to describe...
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    Peking opera (section Sheng)
    the United States and Japan. Peking opera features four main role types, sheng (gentlemen), dan (women), jing (rough men), and chou (clowns). Performing...
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  • means "assist to wake up after a coma". The phrase also exists in (Sheng) Swahili Slang: in Kenya, taking alcohol to relieve a hangover is called kutoa lock...
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    a bare stick (Chinese: 光棍; pinyin: guānggùn), which is Chinese Internet slang for an unmarried man who does not add 'branches' to the family tree. The...
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