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"ref": "1888, Joseph Thomson, E. Harris-Smith, Ulu: an African romance: Volume 1",
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},
{
"ref": "2004, Dan McNickle, Teaching and Hunting in East Africa",
"text": "suspicion about an mzungu wanting a copy of the country's constitution",
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"word": "ፈረንጅ"
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"(sometimes derogatory) rich person (who is not white)"
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"text": "I have given my daughter to an mzungu, and he says he will make her like the wives of the white men.",
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},
{
"ref": "2004, Dan McNickle, Teaching and Hunting in East Africa",
"text": "suspicion about an mzungu wanting a copy of the country's constitution",
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"A white person."
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"word": "鬼佬"
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"word": "balanda"
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