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songi-songi
SO-ngi SO-ngi
malicious gossip / backbiting (derogatory)
French: medisance / commerage (pejoratif)
Mwasi ya songi-songi abebisaka mboka.
A gossiping woman ruins the community.
Une femme medisante detruit la communaute.
Songi-songi — DEROGATORY label for a toxic gossip / rumormonger. Less vulgar than the body-part insults; carries a deep moral sting in tightly-woven Kongo community life where gossip can fracture families.
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