KWAITO


Meaning of KWAITO in English

/ ˈkwaɪtəʊ; NAmE -toʊ/ noun

[ U ] a type of popular South African dance music, often with words that are spoken rather than sung

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WORD ORIGIN

1990s: named after the Amakwaito , a group of 1950s gangsters in Sophiatown (a former quarter of Johannesburg, South Africa), from Afrikaans kwaai angry, vicious.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.