Kiwani

English

Etymology

Ojibwe [Term?] (“we trade”)

Noun

Kiwani (plural Kiwanis)

1. A member of Kiwanis International, an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
   • 1941, Popular Science, volume 138, number 3, page 140:

     I copied them out of an American Automobile Association report because I'm on the spot for a talk at the Kiwanis Club luncheon next week, and I've found that whenever you've got to stand up on your hind legs and expose your ignorance the best thing you can do is put down a nice thick smoke screen of figures between you and your audience.