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Clever

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Clever (Smart/Cool)

"O clever black (You're very smart)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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Clever 🇿🇦 South Africa

Ironic use meaning a **street-smart guy** (not necessarily book-smart).

Clever 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Mwerevu/mjanja (Clever/cunning)

"Amekuwa clever kuwapita wengine (He was clever to surpass others)"

🇧🇼 About Botswana Slang

Botswana slang merges Setswana with English, with Gaborone youth driving a modern lexicon influenced by South African township culture.

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🌍 "Clever" Across Africa

This word is also used in 4 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Clever 🇿🇦 South Africa

Ironic use meaning a **street-smart guy** (not necessarily book-smart).
Clever 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Mwerevu/mjanja (Clever/cunning)
Clever 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Uhlakaniphile / Umuntu oqondayo (Smart / Someone who understands)
Clever 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Bohlale / Ho ba smart (Intelligence / To be smart)

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