Bunga bunga

In 1910 Horace de Vere Cole, Virginia Woolf, her brother Adrian Stephen and a small group of friends pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage.

Anyhow the words "Bunga-Bunga" became public catchwords for a time, and were introduced as tag in music-hall songs and so forth.

[9] This expression was then frequently quoted by the Italian and international press in the run-up to the 2011 investigation surrounding Silvio Berlusconi's child exploitation, where it acquired a quite different meaning as "an orgy involving prostitutes and a powerful leader".

It was said to be "a sort of underwater orgy where nude young women allegedly encircled the nude host and/or his friends in his swimming pool",[12] "an African-style ritual" performed for male spectators by "20 naked young women",[13] or the erotic entertainment of a rich host involving pole dancing and competitive striptease by skimpily clad "women in nurses' outfits and police uniforms",[14] the prize being prostitution for the host.

[17] Writing in 2011, the lexicographer Jonathon Green did not expect the term to make much headway or to last in English.

The term "Bunga Bunga" has been closely associated with former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in recent history.