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Mambookies

Mambookies is the plural of Mambookie.

Meaning of Mambookie

Noun

Mambookie (plural Mambookies or Mambookie)

  1. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).
    • Adjoining this nation, towards the north, there is, according to them, a still more warlike and intrepid people, whom they call Mambukis.1786, Anders Sparrman, translated by Georg Foster, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2 edition, volume 2, page 147
    Synonyms:
    Mpondo

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Questions about Mambookies

What is Mambookies the plural of?
Mambookies is the plural of Mambookie.

Words near Mambookies in the dictionary

  1. mamboes
  2. Mambog
  3. Mambog-Mandama
  4. mamboing
  5. Mambookie
  6. Mambookies
  7. mambos
  8. Mambourin
  9. mambrino
  10. mambrinos
  11. Mambucki

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