kwedinin.
/kwəˈdiːni/, U.S. /kwəˈdini/, South African English /kwəˈdiːni/ South African.
A young African (esp. Xhosa) boy.
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1912 Queenstown Representative 27 Jan. 5/1 This ‘kween dine’ was walking behind the pole driving the bullocks on.
1946 Spotlight (Johannesburg) 23 Aug. 6/1 A twelve-year-old kwedini asleep across some sacks.
1949 Cape Argus 12 Nov. (Mag.) 7/5 Uneducated, ‘raw’ Native kwedinis, aged 15 and upwards.
1955 J. B. Shephard Land of Tikoloshe v. 37 A Khwidini is ‘not old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy’.
1955 J. B. Shephard Land of Tikoloshe viii. 59 Abakhweta..do not mix with the younger Khwedinis.
1970 Daily News (Durban) 18 Dec. 13 One White trader complained that kwedings (boys) had destroyed more than 1000 white telephone cups.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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