katogon.
/kəˈtəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /kəˈtoʊɡoʊ/, East African English /kaˈtoɡo/ Ugandan English.
1. In Ugandan cookery: a dish usually eaten for breakfast, typically consisting of matoke (matoke n.) and sometimes cassava boiled in a pot with onions, tomatoes, oil, etc., often with additional ingredients such as beans, meat, or offal.
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1940 Primitive Man Jan. 28 Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.
1998 Africa News: Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 31 Aug. Usually at 11.00 am I walk back to CPS for a break, and there I eat something, like katogo (boiled mixture of bananas or cassava with beans, offals) and have a soft drink.
2016 P. N. Kabali-Kagwa Flame & Song 56 Soft beans in thick sauce... Forty odd years later I do not remember her name... but the taste of her katogo lingers in my mouth.
2. figurative. A mixture or fusion of disparate elements; a mess, a muddle.
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1994 Africa News: Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 23 May The indignant man..told off Chinweizu... Which told volumes about this Pan Africanism 'katogo'.
1998 Africa News: Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 30 Apr. [He was] speaking a katogo of English and Luganda.
2020 @AtimCharlotte 4 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2020) The katogo in this outfit.., they couldn't give you a white T-shirt and what's that scarf for.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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