Mandingo

Man·din·go

[man-ding-goh]
noun, plural Man·din·gos, Man·din·goes for 1.
1.
a member of any of a number of peoples forming an extensive linguistic group in western Africa.
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Mandingo (mænˈdɪŋɡəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -gos, -goes
Mande a former name for Malinke

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Mandingo is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Mandingo
people of the upper Niger region of West Africa, 1620s.
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