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.