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elongi kuku
e-LO-ngi KU-ku
soot-face / ugly face (insult)
French: face de suie (insulte)
Tala elongi kuku na yo!
Look at your ugly kitchen-soot face!
Regarde ta face de suie de cuisine!
Elongi kuku — literally "kitchen-pot-bottom face." INSULT mocking someone's'appearance, comparing it to the black soot caked on the underside of cooking pots. Kitchen-pot insults are a long Kinshasa tradition of cooking-imagery slurs.
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