Definitions For Kwerekwere

Noun

KWEREKWERE (plural amakwerekwere) (South Africa) A foreign visitor to a township.

Alternative forms

kweri-kweri kwiri-kwiri (less common)

Etymology

. 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.

Is Kwerekwere a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global NO
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
24
Words with Friends
24

The word Kwerekwere is worth 24 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends

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