moocha

M3O1O1C3H4A1

noun

A loincloth made from animals' tails or strips of skin; part of the traditional dress of Zulu males.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounmoocha (plural moochas)

plural moochas

  1. A loincloth made from animals' tails or strips of skin; part of the traditional dress of Zulu males.

    Bacheta took from his moocha a thick wooden peg that was a pin holding the moocha round his loins.

    1908, Douglas Blackburn, Leaven: A Black and White Story
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    Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealing himself naked except for the moocha round his centre and a necklace of lions' claws.

    1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company, published 1907, page 48

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Origin

  1. Zuluunmutsha
  2. Englishmoocha

From Zulu unmutsha.

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