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1. babalaas, adj. and n. View full entry 1947
...Suffering from a hangover, hung-over....
2. mbongo, n. View full entry 1911
...Chiefly derogatory. A political stooge or apologist; a ‘yes-man’....
3. mumbo-jumbo, n. View full entry 1738
...A god or spirit said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; a representation of this; an idol. Now hist....
4. muti, n. View full entry 1858
...A tree. Obs.rare....
5. nunu, n. View full entry 1913
...In South Africa (esp. in the province of KwaZulu-Natal): an insect, a ‘creepy-crawly’....
6. pata-pata, n. View full entry 1961
...A type of sensuous dance especially popular in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s; the jazz-influenced music (usually kwela) that accompanies this....
7. zebra, n. View full entry 1600
...A South African equine quadruped (Equus or Hippotigris zebra), of a whitish ground-colour striped all over with regular bars of black; inhabiting mountainous regions, and noted for its...
8. zombie, n. View full entry 1819
...In the West Indies and southern states of America, a soulless corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft; formerly, the name of a snake-deity in voodoo cults of or deriving from...
9. Zulu, n. and adj. View full entry 1824
...A member of a Bantu people mainly inhabiting KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Also attrib. or as , belonging to this people....
