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fimbo
FI-mbo
whip
French: le fouet / la chicotte
Fimbo ezali na maboko na ye.
The whip is in his hand.
Le fouet est dans sa main.
Whip — a feared switch of old discipline. Fimbo is a whip or cane. A heavy symbol of punishment — once of colonial cruelty, sometimes of strict discipline — the fimbo is a word that lands hard.
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