knagged

Updated: May 1, 2025

At dawn he sent us bad plantains, wheaten crusts, and cups of unpalatable coffee-tea , and, assisted by a crone more decrepid than himself, prepared for me his water- pipe, a gourd fitted with two reeds and a tile of baked clay by way of bowl: now he "knagged" at the slave girls, who were slow to work, then burst into a fury because some visitor ate Kat without offering it to him, or crossed the royal threshold in sandal or slipper.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa