Bundu

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wilderness region, away from cities. South-Africa

    "“You start thinking again: ‘It's for all you cunts down there in Pretoria we're getting blown to pieces in this bundu.’”"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A state in Africa, later a French protectorate dependent on the colony of Senegal. historical
  2. 2
    Alternative form of Bondo (“Sande society”). alt-of, alternative

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"“You start thinking again: ‘It's for all you cunts down there in Pretoria we're getting blown to pieces in this bundu.’”"

Etymology

From Shona bundo (“grassland”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.