make, okukiina, okuduula.

mock, make fun of.

jeer at, make fun of.

make fun of, scorn, laugh to scorn, cf. obukudaaze, omukudaazi.

clean up; colloq. get easy money, ‘clean up.' oku- naaba mu ngalo, to wash one's hands. Annaabamu. He makes fun of me.

make fun of.

showing off, exhibitionistic act; something humorous, omuntu alina bampaane, one who does or says funny things.

for which see the grammars. The following usages are important for lexical purposes because the derivatives formed cannot all be included in the dictionary. 1) bu + la ~ negative infinitive, often equivalent to an English noun which is not an infinitive in form. okumanya, to know; obutamanya, not to know; ingnorance. 2) bu + stem of a noun from another class often produc es an adverb which must be rendered by a phrase in English, enkofu, guinea fowl; bukofu, like a guinea fowl, kukaabya bukofu, to make cry like a guinea fowl, i.e., to cause to suffer. 3) bu + reduplicated stem of a noun of another class indicates plurality with the added notions of indefiniteness, scattered state or even contemp t. essomero, school; obusomerosomero, small, scattered schools which are inferior in quality. 4) normal verb form + bu + verb stem + i. Abalala bagamba nti... others say that; Abalala bagamba bugambi nti... others just/ simply/only say that.

cf. linda, oluzzi.