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kiziimuuziimu EN→LG

e- adv. with a contemptuous look, contemptuously, mockingly, kutunuu- lira kiziimuziimu, to look askance at, look at with contempt/raised eyebrows, cf. ziitnuula.

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laba (-labye EN→LG

ndabye) v.tr. see; perceive; find; get; greet, v.i. be conscious; be alive; be awake; be alert/perceptive, kulaba nnaku, to suffer greatly, experience hardships, kulaba binene to experience major troubles/difficulties, butaiaba muntu, to be proudly contemptuous of someone. kutuuka walaba, to attain a high station, get oneself in the limelight, kwessa

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yinaayina (-yinyeeyinye) v.i. redup. stroll EN→LG

move about in a carefree manner; do whatever one pleases; take things casually lightly; be scornful/contemptuous. Tosuubira nti alikuleka n'oyinaayina emirembc gyonna. Do not expect that he will permit you to keep doing whatever you like forever. Mbwa zaafa, amagunju gayinaayina. (prov.) The dogs died, the wild cats now move about freely. When the cat's away the mice will play. cf. yinala, omuyinooyino.

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