ogbanje
/əʊˈbanʒeɪ/noun
In Nigeria: a child believed by the Igbo people to die repeatedly and be continually reincarnated and born to the same parents.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in African Affairs. From Igbo ọ̀gbán̄jé, lit. ‘maker of several trips’.
- well-stomached
- well-stopped
- well-stored
- well-strained
- well stream
- well-structured
- well-strung
- well-studied
- well-stuffed
- well-suited
- well-sung
- well-supplied
- well supported
- well-sustained
- well sweep
- well-swelled
- well-swollen
- well-tailored
- well taken
- well-tamed
- well-tanned
- well-tasted
- well-taught
- well-taxed
- well tempered