mongo-mongo

Updated: May 20, 2025

We three she and I and Eddie Denton often talked over Mortimer's strange obsession. Denton said that, except that Mortimer had not come out in pink spots, his symptoms were almost identical with those of the dreaded mongo-mongo, the scourge of the West African hinterland. Poor Denton! He had already booked his passage for Africa, and spent hours looking in the atlas for good deserts.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert