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English
Etymology
From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.
Proper noun
Mandingo
- A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.
Translations
Noun
Mandingo (plural Mandingos or Mandingoes)
- A member of the Mandinka people.
- (offensive) A black man with a large penis.
2012, Rebecca Ann Rugg, Harvey Young, Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays, Northwestern University Press, page 379:There are like these women who harbor these psychological fantasies, where they want to be—you know fucked by like a big, strapping, muscled sort of black man with like a gigantic Mandingo dick—like you know that fantasy?
2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), pages 288–289:The Italian wasn’t the black, bulging, big-cocked mandingo that she had read about in Mistress of Falconhurst, but his skin was a little dark so he’d do.
2015, Jazz Jordan, Lust & Hip Hop, Platinum Life Publishing:“But when most people think of Mandingo, they think of...?” “A nigga with a big dick,” Vertigo cut in.
Mandinka
Proper noun
Mandingo (N'Ko spelling ߡߊ߲߬ߘߌ߲߬ߞߊ)
- Mandinka