Mandingo

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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.

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Meanings

proper noun
  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.
nounMandingo (plural Mandingos or Mandingoes)

plural Mandingos · plural Mandingoes

  1. A member of the Mandinka people.
  2. offensiveA black man with a large penis.

    “But when most people think of Mandingo, they think of...?” “A nigga with a big dick,” Vertigo cut in.

    2015, Jazz Jordan, Lust & Hip Hop, Platinum Life Publishing
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

Origin

  1. MandinkaMandinka
  2. EnglishMandingo

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

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Translations

Finnish mandingo
  • mandingomacrolanguage
Italian mandingo
  • mandingomacrolanguage
Russian манден, мандинго
  • манден (manden)macrolanguage
  • мандинго (mandingo)macrolanguage
Cite this entry
APA

Mandingo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mandingo

MLA

“Mandingo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mandingo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mandingo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mandingo.

Source: Mandingo on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.