ingcibin.
/ɪŋˈkiːbi/, U.S. /ɪŋˈkibi/, South African English /ɪŋˈkiːbi/ South African.
Among Xhosas: a man who performs circumcisions on young males as part of the traditional initiation ritual symbolizing passage into manhood (see abakwetha n.).
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1937 B. J. F. Laubscher Sex, Custom & Psychopathol. vi. 114 A necessary qualification for an incibi is that he should have dreamt that he circumcised boys; after which he must have acquired experience by circumcising his own relatives.
1956 A. Sampson Drum 90 ‘Say, “I am a man,”’ said the Ingcibi, or tribal surgeon, after the painful circumcision.
1978 A. Brink Rumours of Rain 297 ‘Who's the incibi?’ ‘The old man who comes from the bush to do the job. At new moon, I believe.’
2004 T. Blacklaws Karoo Boy (2005) 84 The ingcibi stood before me... He pinched my foreskin in his fingers, tugged at it and sliced through me in one swing.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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