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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 Kwavell Kearve karve Karveen Karvey Kwarfe kwarme kwarnell

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