mchongelezi

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Meaning

a person who habitually tells tales or spreads slander about others.

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from -chongelea (to tell tales, slander); used of a gossip who stirs trouble between people, disapprovingly.

Examples

• Hakuna anayemwamini mchongelezi yule.Nobody trusts that talebearer.
• Je, ni kweli ulisema hivyo, au ni mchongelezi aliyekuambia?Is it true you said that, or did a gossip tell you?
• Sikuwa mchongelezi; nilimwambia ukweli tu.I wasn't a talebearer; I just told him the truth.
• Mchongelezi ataleta ugomvi kati yenu.The gossip will bring a quarrel between you two.

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