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Mafeking is the old English name of a town in the north of South Africa. Today the town is called Mafikeng, and you will also see Mahikeng — same place, newer spellings. English remembers the old name because of the Siege of Mafeking in 1899–1900, during a war in South Africa between British soldiers and the (Dutch-speaking people living there). A siege is when an army surrounds a town and waits. British soldiers held the town for 217 days. When more British forces arrived, the Relief of Mafeking made people in Britain celebrate in the streets — so loudly that the name became a famous picture of wild public joy, and English even made a short-lived verb, maffick, meaning to celebrate wildly. Though actually, Mafeking is a place name, not a person's name, and not a word for a party. You will almost only meet it in history books.
馬弗京（南非北部城鎮舊名，今稱 Mafikeng）
組成An old English spelling of a South African place name. The town is now called Mafikeng (also written Mahikeng).
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- maffickan old verb coined from the wild celebrations when the siege of Mafeking ended
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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A locality in the Rural City of Ararat, central western Victoria, Australia
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。