popolo

Ancient Hawaiian word for Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum, a medicinal plant bearing shiny black berries, adapted later as word for African.

"A popolo is a local boy... from Harlem."
from: "Pidgen to the Max" Bess Press, Honolulu,1981

by nicklee February 14, 2005

babaganoosh

An apocryphal guru or holyman.

"I went to Poona, India to study with Babaganoosh."

by nicklee February 14, 2005