sôtchi-flima

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Sãotomense

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Noun

sôtchi-flima

  1. an old rite of passage into adulthood, during which a boy was flogged by his father’s friends

References

  • “sôtchi-flima” in Carlos de Sousa Ferreira Fontes, Estudo do léxico do são-tomense com dicionário (2007).