Meanings
Kamikwasi1
alternative KamiKwasi
- UKderogatorygovernmentKwasi Kwarteng; used to characterise Kwarteng's term as the Chancellor of the Exchequer as reckless.
You might have thought that the first Truss cabinet row would have been over the tax and spend implications of what has become known as the KamiKwasi budget.
2022 September 28, David Aaronovitch, “Truss is right: we need migrants to prosper - Comment”, in The Times, retrieved 30 Sep 20222 more examples
Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz were paralysed with terror. They had waited years for their chance to wreck the economy and now couldn’t bear to deal with the consequences.
2022 September 28, John Crace, “Labour parties like it’s 1997 as Tories descend further into chaos”, in the Guardian, retrieved 30 Sep 2022Those spending plans allied with the tax cuts sent sterling plunging to its lowest-ever value against the dollar earlier this week, as critics decried the government's "KamiKwasi" economics.
2022 September 28, “'KamiKwasi' economics: Baptism of fire for UK's new finance minister Kwarteng”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 30 Sep 2022
KamiKwasi2
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Kamikwasi.
Origin
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Kamikwasi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kamikwasi
“Kamikwasi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kamikwasi. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kamikwasi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kamikwasi.
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