moloi
/məˈlɔɪ/ /mɔːˈlɔɪ/South African
noun
In southern Africa (in Sotho and Tswana society): a practitioner of magic; a wizard, a witch.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in John Mackenzie (1835–1899), missionary in Africa. From Sotho and Tswana moloi from loya to bewitch.
- likeliness
- likely
- likely-looking
- like mad
- like magic
- like-minded
- like-mindedness
- liken
- likeness
- like nobody's business
- like nothing on earth
- like (or for) grim death
- like peas (or two peas) in a pod
- like pulling teeth
- Likert scale
- like shit
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like sin
- like so
- like stink
- like that
- like the cat that got (or stole) the cream
- like the clappers
- like the deuce
- like the devil