mzungu
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- noun
- UK
- American Mzungu:
- mzungu child
Examples
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Thanks to American Mzungu.
Blog text (9) -
"What about that mzungu?" The small girl startled the Headmaster with the question.
Fiction book (1991) -
The students laughed and laughed at their mzungu (foreign) teacher, but they helped out in every way that they could.
Fiction book (1994) -
Hi, Mama Mzungu.
Blog text (15) -
When she ran out of steam after laughing for what must have been a good half minute, the little girl stopped and, turning to Boge, she asked, "Uncle Jay, can you beat a white man, a mzungu?"
Fiction book (1991) -
They are mzungu.
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American Mzungu: A paper in a class 30 years ago might be interesting to a biographer trying to understand Obama's development of character and intellectual thought over time.
Blog text (15) -
Qwarda knew where this particular Hadzabe group was located; they had set up their homestead here a few weeks ago, and he had already made contact to ask if it was okay to bring a couple of mzungu to the camp.
Blog text (32) -
- MZUNGU EAT FISH.
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"Mzungu" is a term used in East Africa to refer to a foreigner, particularly someone from Europe.
Synonyms
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A person not accepted by a group
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mzungu comes from the Swahili verb zunguka, which means 'to go around'. It first meant a 'wanderer', and because early visitors from abroad often moved through villages, the word came to mean a 'foreigner' or outsider, especially someone of European descent.