Word of the Day Archive

Mbenembe

Sugar mama

Katsi-bonga

A street-savvy, ghetto chick; resourceful, bold, and ready to claw anyone who underestimates her.

katsi = cat 🐱, bonga = stray, alley-dwelling version. Put them together and you get the quintessential hood chick: street-smart, scratches if provoked, and always lands on her feet. Switches from polished English to raw Shona in two seconds flat, depending on who’s buying madrinks. EcoCash zero balance, but never without data bundles for TikTok live.

Beda

girl / chick / lady

Chimoko

Girl

Faya

Lit / Spectacular

Tapinda-tapinda

Made it

takacooler down

just chilling / loafing / vibing - no stress, no rush, no sudden movements.

Combines Shona “taka–” (we are) + English “cooler down” -> we’re in full chill mode. Used when your squad is planted on tuma bridge twe areas, Tanto Wavie on repeat, and the only deadline is sunset.

Mbinya

Stupid

Dhakwa brain

Stupid

Duzununu

Dumb / Stupid

Makheyi

Dumb / Stupid

Dutye

Coward / Dumb / Idiot / Stupid person

More than

Biggest / Least / Most

Last

Extreme / Biggest / Least / Most / Very

Kwata

Fear

Hwayi

Dumb / Spineless / Sheepish person / Coward

Jamba bhavhu

Skip a shower / Skip a bath

Rova bavhu

Take a bath / Take a shower

Kudzifambira nyaya dzacho

Taking initiative

Method hombe

It works