‖amasoka, plural noun
- Forms:
- Also amosoka.
- Origin:
- IsiXhosaShow more IsiXhosa, ‘young unmarried men’ (singular isoka).
1. Young unmarried men considered old enough to court women; womanizers.
1952 H. Klein Land of Silver Mist 48The boys, now known as amosoka — swains — are smeared with red clay and fat and are given new blankets and karosses. They are taken to a cattle kraal where they are lectured by the elders..in their duties as men and then dispersed to their home kraals.
1987 Pace Nov. 4Amasoka better look before they leap. There was this dandy of a dude who left nothing under a skirt untouched.
2. transferred sense. Migrant workers separated from their families.
1976 M. Tholo in C. Hermer Diary of Maria Tholo (1980) 173The people streaming into Guguletu were full of two warnings. Firstly the Bhacas — we now call them the amasoka or bachelors — were on the warpath.
Young unmarried men considered old enough to court women; womanizers.
Migrant workers separated from their families.
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