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kwarteng 

kwar·teng VERB

1) to commit a grave error, potentially financial in nature

※This definition can pertain to something that has happened before and stopped or an action currently occurring.

2) to suffer a continuous state of disaster
※This definition should have greater effect if the term is used for a situation arising from an action under definition 1.

Synonyms: 1) blunder, make a mistake, (informal) bugger up, (vulgar) fuck up
2) languish, suffer, be tormented, be tortured, (informal) get screwed over, (vulgar) get fucked over

Derivation:

1) From the surname of Kwasi Kwarteng, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the aftermath of a September 2022 mini-budget widely condemned as erroneous by, among others, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England.
2) The same, but more as a result of the apparent rationale for emergency interventions by the Bank of England in the aftermath of the above.
Definition 1: That idiot of a CFO kwartenged the budget, didn't he?
Definition 2: Pension funds would have collapsed within hours had the economy been permitted to kwarteng unimpeded.
kwarteng by bibhutibhushan September 28, 2022
Related Words
Kwarve • kwarteng • Kearve • Kwavell • karve • Karveen • Karvey • Karvee • karveisha • Karvel

Kearve Hour 

An Australian term meaning '15 minutes'.
Guy 1: Hey mate, you nearly here?
Guy 2: Yeah, i'll be there in a Kearve Hour.
Kearve Hour by 10lo March 6, 2013

Kwasi Kwarteng 

A yes-man that cocked up the british economy

Apparently they don't teach economics in Africa
Kwasi Kwarteng by Liz Truss October 17, 2022
A slang term for the number '15'. Taken from a 15 year old Sydney rapper named 'Kearve' who famously starts his songs with 'Kearve...15'.
Teacher: What's ten plus five?
Student: KEARVE!!
Kearve by 10lo March 6, 2013

karvendhan 

A typical Tamil word to define kind of clouds.
Karvendhan is here.

King of clouds is Karvendhan
karvendhan by Unknown master October 8, 2018
pronounced: qu-ah-me

to be ridiculously weird. coming from the sky with the rest of the aliens. stalkerish. talks about how potatoes grow, and how the dentist gives him his tools.
Joeys roommate is such a kwarme.

That kid was totally kwarmen it !
kwarme by the 3LW + 1 February 13, 2009
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