mugu

See also: muku, muĝu, and mùgǔ

English

Noun

mugu (plural mugus)

1. (South Africa) Alternative spelling of moegoe
   • 2010, Sefi Atta, News from Home: Stories, page 245:

     They sent emails asking mugus to wire funds in order to claim nonexistent prizes.

2. (West Africa, derogatory) A fool.
   • 2020, Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA, page 240:

     It is people like you who make my hustlers in Europe call Americans mugu.

3. (Nigeria, Internet slang, derogatory) A victim of an online scam.

See also

• Yahoo boy (Nigerian slang)

Dharug

Alternative forms

• mogo

Noun

mugu

1. hatchet
   • 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:

     ‘Bulla mogo parrabugo’ (two hatchets to-morrow) I repeatedly cried; but having probably experienced our insincerity, he rejected the proposal with disdain.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Troy, Jakelin (1994). “The Sydney Language”, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 67.

Faroese

Etymology

See mega.

Verb

mugu

1. first/second/third-person plural present indicative of mega

Guugu Yimidhirr

Etymology

From Proto-Paman *muku "bone", from Proto-Pama-Maric *muku, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *muku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muɡu/

Noun

mugu

1. back
2. seed, shell

Synonyms

• yangay (avoidance language)

References

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /múː.ɡùː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [múː.ɡʷùː]

Adjective

mūgū̀ (feminine mūgùwā or mugunyā̀, plural mūgā̀yē or miyā̀gū)

1. bad, evil

Derived terms

• mugunta (“evil deed”)

Noun

mūgū̀ m (feminine mūgùwā or mugunyā̀, plural mūgā̀yē or miyā̀gū, possessed form mūgùn)

1. an evil thing or person

Derived terms

• mugun dawa (“warthog”)

Volapük

Noun

mugu

1. predicative singular of mug