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Slang of the Week: One Day Mafatu!

Posted by Wilson in literacy, slang on July 31st, 2009

51V1WsWArGL._SL500_AA240_One Day Mafatu: Soon; eventually; Used to declare your intentions are on track, and will happen…just not today.

A promise of future vengeance for a real or perceived wrong;

(I’m not too sure of the origins, but Mafatu was the main character from Armstrong Sperry’s growing up novel, The Boy Who Was Afraid.)

I know I should be saving my money but… I will. One day mafatu.

Yeah you wait there boy – one day I gonna smack your face properly saraga. One day Mafatu…

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