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Etymology
Possibly from Edo awuekia (“impotent man”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
awege
- (dated, derogatory) male homosexual, effeminate man
Derived terms
References
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Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits (1936) Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 744