mogodu, noun

Forms:
Also mogudu.
Origin:
SothoShow more Sotho, ‘stomach’, ‘paunch’.
Among Sotho-speakers: tripe; mala mogodu.
1966 K.M.C. Motsisi in Post 16 Jan. (Drum) 19His wife always gives him pap and mogudu, breakfast, lunch and supper.
1982 Voice 21 Feb. 10If you look for it, you’ll get it in Marabastad. From sheeps head to mogodu.
1982 Pace June 37They long for pap and steak and mogodu..just seeing a plane with SAA and knowing that that plane..is going home.
1990 Weekend Post 7 July 14For Miriam Makeba, the internationally-acclaimed vocalist who left South Africa 31 years ago, one of the main things she said she had missed was eating her favourite traditional dish mogodu (tripe).
tripe; mala mogodu.
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