Mandingon.adj.

1623 R. Jobson Golden Trade 27 I take my beginning from the mouth of the River, whereat our first entrance, we find the Black men called Mandingos.

1755 N. Owen Jrnl. in E. Martin Jrnl. Slave-Dealer (1930) 57 The Mindigoes are well skill'd in the Arabac tongues.

1798 Proc. Afr. Assoc. 4 The inhabitants are chiefly Mandingoes, and seem to be a well disposed and peaceable race.

1850 Proc. Zool. Soc. 133 It is called Dacoi, or White Mouth, by the Mandingoes, Kob and Koba by the Joliffs.

1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 522/1 Mandingoes, from the Gambia River, lighter of color, of cruder form, and a cunning that shows in the countenance.

1913 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. II. xxi. 332 It [sc. the term Mandingo] is used as a generic term to cover all Mandingo tribes. These tribes bear names derived frequently from their locality; but when members of these tribes migrate to Liberia, Sierra Leone, French Guinea, or generally anywhere farther afield, their territorial designations are dropped, and they are called Mandingo generally, in various forms or corruptions of the name, as Mande, Mani, Maninga, and Mandenga, the last two being plural forms.

1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. iii. 60 The typical Mandingo are described as tall and slender in build.

1948 Caribbean Q. 1 i 11 Of these 101 were Mandingoes from Senegambia and the upper Niger.

1952 D. Westermann & M. A. Bryan Lang. W. Afr. ii. 31 The name Mande or Mandingo is a general term applied by Europeans and others to all the tribes speaking Mande languages. The name (other versions of which are Mandi, Male, Mali, Mele.., Manding) is properly applied only to the people commonly known as Malinke and to their speech.

1992 R. A. Spears in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 42 The basic problem with the term Mandingo is that no one—not even the specialist—can be sure of what it means. It may refer to all the Mande people or only the Northern Mande people—namely the Bambara, Malinke, and Djula.

1993 B. Cross It's not about Salary 303 She had her little black man with her though, her little Mandingo.

1740 in Afr. Stud. (1971) 30 278 Leo certainly gives to these Languages the Arabian Names, which are quite different from the Names given by the People of that Country..that spoken by the Negroes is called Mundingo.

1846 R. G. Latham in Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 221 The Susu, of which we have a grammar, is allied to the Mandingo.

1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Aug. 183/2 But you know the languages, you can speak Foulah, Mandingo, and Serra-Ouli, can you not?

1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language 11. ii. 112 A West African language, Mandingo, distinguishes a fa ‘his father’, from a-ta kursi ‘his breeches’.

1969 Times 19 July 9/5 Many of these slaves were..conversant with the two main languages of Senegambia: Wolof and Mandingo.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. i. 14 He..spent the time until December learning Mandingo at an English factory on the river Gambia.

1744 W. Smith's New Voy. Guinea 9 The next Day we went a Shore, and being conducted into the Castle, found there the Emperor of Fonia and his Retinue, who saluted us after the European Manner of shaking Hands, and repeating the Word Montanie, which in the Mandingo Language signifies, God bless you.

1755 N. Owen Jrnl. in E. Martin Jrnl. Slave-Dealer (1930) 55 Her father..advised her to send for a Mandinga priest.

1793 tr. A. R. J. Turgot Refl. Formation & Distrib. Wealth §37. 40 The Mandingo negroes..bring all their commodities to a fictitious scale, which both parties call macutes.

1798 Proc. Afr. Assoc. 9 Of the other wild animals in the Mandingo countries, the most common are the hyæna, the panther, and the elephant.

1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 329 Another very rhythmical air is the following Mandingo one.

1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps 11. i. 99 Some Mandingo traders whom he caught smuggling goods over the border from French territory.

1972 C. A. Quinn (title) Mandingo kingdoms of the Senegambia.