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▪ I. munt S. Afr. and Rhodesian slang.|mʊnt|
[ad. Bantu umuntu, sing. of abantu (see Bantu a. and n.), lit. a person, black person, servant.]
A Black African: usu. as a term of contempt.
[1926G. Callaway Fellowship of Veld iii. 25 To the Native the qualities which go to make up ubuntu, the qualities which make an umntu (person), are largely social. 1937E. G. Malherbe Educational Adaptations in Changing Society xx. 500 Standard of development will be judged by the extent to which the Native has ceased to be an Umuntu and has become a European.] 1948O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 77 It's the towns that muck the munt up. 1953N. Gordimer Lying Days i. iii. 35 Man, there's a whole lota niggers round Ockerts', all over the garden and in the street and everywhere. Just a lot of munts from the Compound. 1962New Statesman 24 Aug. 218/1 The old ‘munt’, as the African is still widely and insultingly termed. 1964Listener 13 Feb. 257/1 His friends were muttering..about ‘cheeky munts’, which is the insulting white Rhodesian term for Africans. 1972P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy (1973) xxiv. 309, I used the whistle too, of course, but those two munts in the truck didn't even hear it.
▪ II. munt
obs. form of mint v.1, mount. |