Munt vs Ment - What's the difference?
munt | ment |
A black person, usually a man.
* 2006 , Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman , Zebra Press, page 63:
As verbs the difference between munt and ment
is that munt is (australia|slang) to vomit (usually while drunk) while ment is (obsolete) (meng).As a noun munt
is a black person, usually a man.munt
English
Etymology 1
Derived from umntu , Ndebele for a human being.Noun
(en noun)- Munt'' was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks. I suspect its origin was the word ''umntu , Ndebele for a person or human being