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There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.
2002, Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, Prison Writing: A Collection of Fact, Fiction and Verse, Waterside Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:
So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.
2006 February 9, Kevin Lewis, Kaitlyn, Penguin UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
‘Fucking loony bin more like. There's no one sick here, not physically anyway. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. It's the kangas you want to watch out for.‘ ‘Kangas?’ ‘Kangaroo. Screw.’
2010 February 4, Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC:
They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.
2017 April 27, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Aurora Metro Publications Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC:
Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.
Moïse Adjèbè Aka, Émile Yédé N’guessan, Jonas N’guessan et Chantal Tresbarats, Syllabaire abidji, Abidjan, Les nouvelles éditions africaines, coll. « Je lis ma langue », 1984.
Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.
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1622, anonymous author, “Madeira, ou madeiramento pa. casas ou de casas.”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 27; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.
