gorogoro
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Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
gorogoro
Sranan Tongo[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Kongo ki-kodi-kódi, from Proto-Bantu *-kodo (“throat, gullet”).[1]
Noun[edit]
gorogoro
- gullet, throat
- 1975, Edgar Cairo, “Wan pisi fu libi”, in Ursy M. Lichtveld, Jan Voorhoeve, editors, Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam[1], New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 254:
- Wan takru sortu kosokoso di no abi kaba a ben gwenti e kisi. Ala yuru wan pikin pisi tabaka ben e anga na en mofobuba. Mi ben e kari dati en ‘tabakaworon.’ Te a ben tan, dan a ben ari wan dampu fu na ‘lespeki tabaka.’ Nanga kosokoso a smoko e ari en srefi komopo na ini en gorogoro.
- He used to get a nasty cough that had no end. There was always a piece of tobacco dangling from his lips. I used to call it his ‘tobacco worm.’ He was always puffing at his very strong tobacco. Coughingly, the smoke belched from his throat.
- larynx
Verb[edit]
gorogoro
- to gargle