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‖ mbongo S. Afr.|mˈbɒŋgəʊ|
Also imbonga, imbongo, mbonga, mbongi.
[Zulu.]
An official who sings the praises of the (Zulu) king; hence applied to any flatterer of a high personage or institution.
1839W. C. Harris Wild Sports S. Afr. xiv. 116 We..were accordingly preparing to start when a herald, called, in the Matabili language, Imbongo, a proclaimer of the king's titles, suddenly made his appearance outside the kraal. 1871in T. Baines Northern Goldfields Diaries (1946) III. 687 His Imbonga, or court flatterer..recounted the battles of the Matabele. 1945Cape Times 29 May, Municipal mbongo... The Mayor made quite a good case for the appointment of an official who would be a sort of professional praiser. 1948Cape Argus 16 Sept. 7 Government supporters have danced around their Ministers like dutiful, adoring and disciplined mbongos. 1957Ibid. 15 June 1/7 They were..a lot of mbongas to hymn the praises of the incompetent Nationalist hierarchy. 1973Drum 8 Mar. 53 The mbongis..climb up his ancestral tree singing the praise poems of Vorster's illustrious forebears. |