1) Agwan? – How are ya?
2) Batty Boy – a butt-bandito
3) Pickney – small toi
4) Fomu – what’s the plan? ‘Sina form,’ – I have no plan.
5) Chapa za Ovyo – to tell fake storos to impress.
6) Chrome – crowded. ‘Hio bus ilikuwa ime-chrome vizii (very badly).’
7) Ozil – to give assistance, eg, ‘how can you be of ozil?’
8) Gorod – to get re-trenched, fired; or expelled from chuo. Waiganjo was ‘gorod.’
9) Pope – is ‘hope.’ So you sing the song, ‘ohh, Joanna gimme pope, till the morning light.’
10) Chomoa Ocholla – pliz show me the text or WhatsApp message or nudie, or juicy gossipski.
11) Machwara – cheap alcohol or pombe or ‘tei.’ Tuli-kwang-kwang kwa machwara, tuka tei.
12) Matapaka – this one is obvious, n we thank mseiya Keter, n his sponsor de Gilgil weigh-bridge.
13) Mbogos – bogus, like that chap Mbogo with his multi-millionaire storo za ovyo.
14) Mjanjalas – a sly person, a hustler.( in English, a hustler is also an ‘unscrupulous’ n even a poko).
15) Mtepa – a miraa consumer (ganji is ‘money’ whilst ganja is ‘marijuana.’).
16) Mzae na Muthamas – father n mother.
17) Mblainer – a snitch, a back-biter, one who can stab ya in the back. Brutus alikuwa mblainer!
18) MaBoy na Mangana – yur boys n gals. ‘Huyu ni ngana wa mines.’
19) Money (ama Eurobond talk). A thao is ‘tenga’ ama ‘capo,’ five-sock is still a ‘punch,’ two hundred shilling is ‘ras’ ama ‘rwabski,’ fifty bab is a ‘nich’ (finje is out), twenty bob ni mbaula na 10, kinde.
20) Niaje – WhatsUp? (made forever never redundant by none other than Prez Obama last July).
21) Vodoski - vodka.
22) Trumpery – showy but worthless, rubbish like Donald Trump (this, for real, is a real Oxford word)
23) The Hill n the Bill – the next White House Couple by end o this year, Hillary n Bill Clinton.
24) Dualle – to be the class dullard, duh.
25) Nkaisilly – to make baseless empty threats to someone. ‘Don’t be nkaisilly!’
26) Ume-beat –ime-beat-kuna-vile-ime-chapaa. Tired n rusty.
27) Fronting – pretending to be sumthing yu ain’t, like the racist Karen campsite – it just fronting.
28) #MCM – ManCrushMonday. For de record, ain’t nuttin like this! Mondays are just either manic or blue. Just stick to the #TBT (throwbackThursdae) n mek sure, (odijo Cliff O, imam talkin’ to ya), thaz the only day yur nostalgic. #flashbackfriday na #sendimendalsunday are juzz shady, za ovyo
29) IMY – I Miss Ya.
30) #slaves – in twenty fifteen, after euro-bounds n unaccounted taxes, we realised is all we are.
We singing like the Britto punk duo, ‘doncha open ya paycheck, have ya started digging ya grave yet?’
31) Dunda – the new word for the rave is back, so, tutaidandia tuu ka ma-three.
32) Imbo – kitu fake, ka zile contraband za China.
33) Kuji-nice ni kuji-bamba, or enjoy yourself or so.
34) Kuwekwa radar – when yur being profiled so that yur mugged, ‘niliwekwa radar uko Githurai.’
35) Para msee – kuchochea mtu, eg, ‘huyo chali alini-para mpaka nanga akafikiria mi ni mtu imbo’.
36) Riba – a story.
37) Niko you – ‘into you.’
38) Ngwai – bhang/weed/spliff.
39) Ndethe – naked. Socialite alikuwa ndethe nikamwai ma-snap nikaziweka kwa InstantGram.
40) Nduthski – a suit. ‘Umevaa nduthski unafika weddo?’ ‘No, hii nduthski ni ya funeral, budda.’
41) Ndula – a pair of shoe.
42) Chupilee – second hand u/wear, tired ngotha or a short thong, or man undies dat show crack butt.
43) Ndekiski – a prick or dude or dudette who is an ace-hole, or else msee wa kunyemelea-ring.
44) Nyongwa – to be choked by envy (now dat was my amoosing songski of 2015).
45) Hell-oooo? Jimmy Gait single-handedly brought ‘helllooo’ back as a form of xpression for shock.
46) Vardy – after the Leicester striker, to be totally cool, rad like a fad, or simply ‘with it.’
47) Rude Bwuoyyy – nigga yu canna joke wit.
48) Dope Boi Frsh – fresh, funky, cool – that is ‘dope boi frshhh.’
49) TeamOfisi (dedicated workers) TeamMafisi – dedicated chasers of dudettes, side-line salivaters.
50) Zime-rise – getting hit by a state of intoxication after partaking of mangwai, ama machwara.
