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Mandingo

Mandingo proper noun: a macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.

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.

Noun

Mandingo (plural Mandingos or Mandingoes)

  1. A member of the Mandinka people.
  2. (offensive) A black man with a large penis.
    • 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?2012, Rebecca Ann Rugg, Harvey Young, Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays, Northwestern University Press, page 379
    • 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.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), pages 288–289

Forms of Mandingo

pluralMandingos
pluralMandingoes

Origin of Mandingo

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

Questions about Mandingo

What does Mandingo mean?
Mandingo means a macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.
What part of speech is Mandingo?
Mandingo can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Mandingo in the dictionary

  1. mandils
  2. manding
  3. Mandingan
  4. Mandingans
  5. Mandingbam
  6. Mandingo
  7. Mandingoes
  8. Mandingos
  9. Mandinka
  10. Mandinkas
  11. mandioc

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Mandingo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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