shenzi

See also: shēnzi and shěnzi

English

shenzi (plural shenzis)

(dated, Africa) A barbarian (variously used to refer to foreigners, Europeans, or pagans)
- 1919, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints, p. 263:
  We instructed our men to shoot first and inquire afterward, if a shenzi so much as showed himself in the clearing.

Of uncertain origin, perhaps from the same source as Arabic زَنْج‎ (zanj, “Zanj”).

-shenzi (declinable)

Inflected forms of -shenzi

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