Mandingo

See also: mandingo

English

Etymology

From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.

Proper noun

Mandingo

1. 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

macrolanguage

• Finnish: mandingo (fi)
• Italian: mandingo (it) m
• Russian: манден (manden), мандинго (mandingo)

Noun

Mandingo (plural Mandingos or Mandingoes)

1. A member of the Mandinka people.
2. (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)

1. Mandinka