Fingon.
/ˈfɪŋɡəuː/ A Xhosa-speaking people of South Africa, now resident in the Eastern Cape province, representing a coalescence of various groups of fugitives driven southward from Natal in the 1820s.
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1829 C. Rose Four Years S. Afr. viii. 193 I saw many of the fugitives, who are called Fingos, wanderers.
1836 Graham's Town Jrnl. (S. Afr.) 109 The Fingoes residing on the missionary station, displayed..considerable firmness and courage.
1850 J. W. Appleyard Kafir Lang. 41 The term Amafengu is a conventional national epithet, first applied to the Fingoes by the Kafirs, but now in general use amongst themselves.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 517/1 The South African races, Hottentots and Kaffres, Fingoes and Bechuanas, Basutos and Zulus.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 3/1 The formerly degraded but now respected and civilized Fingos or Fengus, who give their name to the district of Fingoland.
1955 M. Gluckman Custom & Confl. Afr. iii. 76 A similar attitude was shown by some Fingo elders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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