kwerekwere

词形变化

amakwerekwere 复数 amakwerekwere

别名

kwiri-kwiri

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A foreign visitor to a township.

    南非

    We came here just like every other nation. Just like Indians, Asians, Europeans. But we are the only people they call ‘kwerekwere’. They call the blacks ‘kwerekwere’, they don’t call the whites ‘kwerekwere’.

    If they see you are foreigner, you are “kwerekwere”. [They] give the name for all foreigners, “kwerekwere”.

    the township residents involved in the attacks invaded the homes and businesses owned by 'amakwerekwere' and stole their money and other property.

词源

Onomatopoeic. Foreigners who came to the townships could not speak the local languages. One theory on the origin of this term is that their own languages sounded like kwirikwirikwiri to the locals. A more plausible theory is that this term was a corruption of the word "korekore". The Korekore are a sub-group of the Shona people in neighboring Zimbabwe.

来源：wiktionary