Etymology

amagogotya

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Today it means: Those who refused to take part in the Xhosa cattle-killing and crop-destroying movement of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa. Full definition →

Xhosa [Term?]
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  1. Xhosa · borrowed from[Term?]
  2. English todayamagogotya

From Xhosa [Term?] (literally “stingy ones”).

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