Meanings
- A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.
plural Mandingos · plural Mandingoes
- A member of the Mandinka people.
- 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 Publishing2 more examples
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 379The 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
Origin
- MandinkaMandinka
- EnglishMandingo
From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.
More words from Mandinka
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish mandingo
- mandingomacrolanguage
Italian mandingo
- mandingomacrolanguage
Russian манден, мандинго
- манден (manden)macrolanguage
- мандинго (mandingo)macrolanguage
Cite this entry
Mandingo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mandingo
“Mandingo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mandingo. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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