gonie, noun
- Forms:
- Also goney, gonnie.
- Origin:
- IsicamthoShow more Isicamtho, origin unknown (but see quotation 1962).
slang
A knife.
[1962 W.S. Manqupu in Star 22 Feb. 14Other languages have also been drawn on for the tsotsis’ lingua franca, Chinese, Latin, French, Indian and Central African. For example, as a group of Central African tribesmen are addicted to the use of the knife, the tsotsis now have the verb ‘goni,’ which means to stab. The word comes from the Angoni tribe of Nyasaland.]
A knife.
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