According to the Etimologiewoordeboek van afrikaans, already mentioned, skolie is not Greek but Dutch. "Can I bum a twak?" You drink a Castle beer, or maybe a spook and diesel. (A quest to complete a task) When you’re determined to complete a task, you are "on a mission". Indian or Malay curry inside a hollowed out loaf of white bread. ", Naai Try it some time. When the surf is cooking, it’s "going off its face", "firing", "pumping", "cranking", "going off its pip", "kraaking", "sick", "rad", "perfect", "going ballistic", etc. (Afrikaans - Drunk). Marcha (Aggravation) Usually used in this context: "Don't tune me grief." "connection – a friend, mate, chommie" - This has been used in the USA long before South Africa (Probably many other places as well) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.14.35.4 (talk) 15:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC), Last time I looked, a kangaroo's pouch is on the front. Eina (Ay-nah) "I got such a rush riding that 15’ barrel at the Crayfish Factory. Often used along with kak, i. e. "That's kak bot" ___ Huh? Swazi Reds It is achieved by rubbing the koppe against the palm of your other hand. outrageous prevalence of child poverty, not only in South Africa, but across the globe. Someone will yell it just before the lip at Cave Rock renders you senseless, the bouncer’s fist greets your jaw or the "boere come and bust you for smoking dagga" (the cops catch you smoking dope). (Afrikaans – lit. (Afrikaans – to push) Bonk. Boere Like Paddy in Ireland, Van der Merwe is the butt of South African jokes. Not to be confused with another Afrikaans word, dosie (box). "Got a bit of salad there bru?". (Watch out Ray, that crook is sizing up your car. ), The moer in (roll the r) Grief (Rising swell, or organised person) "The surf is jacking up" (The surf is getting bigger). Comes from the Afrikaans "outjie" (oh-kee) (old guy, old chap). "I just had such a kief wave." See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Helena’s connections and jobs at similar companies. ", Jammie (School is too much like hard work. Mullet (Afrikaans - Gay, queer) A derogeratory term for a gay person. (Suspicious) "That oke is lank dodgy" (That guy is very suspicious). Braai (as in “High”) The springbok is South Africa’s most well known antelope. "Pull in to the jol tonight broer" (Come with us to the party tonight, bro). "That wave closed out. Thunder thighs 0:00 AM (0:00) New York Time. You don’t really want to smoke them if you can help it, but if you have to ... Skollie ('Skaw-llie') Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority of South Africa during the 20th century. "Gatvol": Ass is stuffed; sick & tired of something:"Im getting gatvol of all this traffic..."--Shado.za 11:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC). Also used as a more general term for the human bottom. (Afrikaans - Nice, pleasant, stoned, fun, lovely, good, pretty) It is used by all language groups to express approval, often to cover up a limited vocab. Homesick South Africans buy it from gourmet stores around the world, even if they don't like it. "Check it bru! Skitsels are the stalks, pips and bits of leaves. The hangover from hell, fondly called a "Barbie". (Friend, buddy) "Hy my kanala, have't checked you for a while. "It was going off. "He rips it apart." He is cool because he wears funky shades (fashion). Taking the Lord's name in vain. To vomit, puke. (Broken surf) Waves that have long broken and are washing sedately along the shoreline. That’s cool (affirmation). You're super cool if you say "One time, shoeshine". One time “Stukkend” usually implies that it is fixable. A real Afrikaner might reply to a "Howzit", with this bewildering response: "Ja, well, no fine". ", Gerbe / rhebe ('G*air-b-ear') This word has a number of different meanings. What are the signs and symptoms of infection with myiasis? We've been in … For instance, you say to someone who has just delivered obscure reasoning for doing something, "How’s your plak?" Booger It's common among politically correct (PC) people. (I am going to hit that c**t), Blind I do feel they are comparable, however. Isit? (Afrikaans - Dry mouth) Normally associated with a cracked, parched mouth and thwollen tongue when you have thmocked too muth doobie. Boerewors (vorse) "You guys at Wavescape have left out a span of words in your slang dictionary ekse!". We're the one stop shop for all your food and meat processing supplies. (To tell, to talk, to provoke) For instance, "Don’t tune me grief" (Don’t give me your bullshit) or "Are you tuning me kak?" (Taken out, get into trouble, die, fail) "Bru, if you look at my old lady like that again, you're going to come short." Bangbroek (bângbrook) A proper lammie becomes a bump immediately. Slang glossaries violate the following policy: Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a usage or jargon guide. That's not a lekker way to treat your chinas, especially if they are surf "tjommies". (Bottleneck) The orifice that is used to make a pipe through which dagga is smoked. "Let's kap another dop." (Mean or uncool act) Someone who has done something very undesirable, such as driving over a friend's surfboard or stealing his girl. "That wave at Supers was awesome, man!". (I'm having a piss). It can also mean drunk to the point of being completely paralytic. Mostly called "slops", they are what Australians call thongs, or sandals. (A literal description of the act of vomiting) In South Africa, you also kotch, park a tiger, blow chunks or make a technicoloured yawn. ", What what Squirting the snozzle ), Naafi ", Doss Skelm ('Skellum') Read on to find out more about the history and meaning of the South African flag. (Afrikaans - Female genitalia) "You are such a doos." "He was on a plak when he dived off the roof." "Don't be a poepol". "That ou has a serious lung hone bru." (Paddle skier, waveskier) See also windmill, goatboat, boatie. Well, that depends on how long we take to finish watching the video and putting on the roofracks). Sjoe ('Shoe') (No ambition and f ' all interest) "After we lost the World Cup, I felt naafi. (Light it up friend). a short distance) A cigarette or a joint, as in "Score me an entjie bru", Ek sê ('Eck sair') Have a sluk of someone's drink (sip). The reason why standup surfers don’t like them much is because goatboats paddle faster. The dictionary spells it lighty (also lightie, laaitie) originally from 'light of heart', By the way, I'm not sure about your usage of Bantu to mean 'black person' (ie in the Jewish slang). It's eaten as sweet porridge, or as part of a main course. Vry has nothing to do with vryf. Also, I have refrained from delineating the peculiar historical trajectories of aid relations in South Africa and Tanzania, as provided in Koch and Weingart (2016, 34 et seq. ", Suss “step”) Walk. At the Crayfish Factory on a 12' day, you don’t really want to spend time there. Schlep (a hassle, a schlep) "School is such a mission." "During the film, my boyfriend and I graunched in the back row" (During the movie we french kissed, rubbed, fondled, squeezed, squashed up against each other, gyrated and did everything short of penetration. (Laugh) "He was hosing himself when he fell in the pool.". (Weak, feeble) "That was a lame excuse.". The direct translation in Afrikaans is a tree, but it has come to represent dope. (Exposed, sticking out like sore thumb, vulnerable) People who smoke too much dope get paranoid. The Brits were the first to make it commercially viable. kotch or kotchin' meaning: to hang, stay, chill in an area can also mean to go "do you wanna come over to my house " "nah mate i cant i am KOTCHIN' with Dom " by Alex (bringing you the word kotch) June 06, … Egg Beater However, people who don't smoke dagga don't use it, so there is a connection. (Are you looking at me crooked - do you want to fight me?). (Image: Brand South Africa) South African English has a flavour all its own, borrowing freely from Afrikaans, which is similar to Dutch and Flemish, as … It refers to the impact zone, the area where the waves break. It can also be used as a noun. Pretoria's nickname is "The Jacaranda City" due to the many jacaranda trees. If you don't feel like participating in a conversation with a dik ou at a braai, but don't wish to appear rude, just say "Isit" at appropiate gaps in his description of how he decapitated a Kudu with his bare hands. If a school boy is smoking a cigarette in the toilet, his friend will "keep chips" for him. The same as "My God!" Skedonk Also called the pit. Slang isn't really appropriate here. It is dark red, with sticky furry hairs on the heads. "Chips oke, that malpit's going right through a red robot!". Snart (Head, pip) If you ding your pip, you hurt your head. Moose Rather, it's a way of describing a punch that decks your adversary, probably with the desired result in mind. ", Got off with (Do you want sleep at my place?). In the eyes Rave Another way to ask would be to replace "hit" with the word "drag". Kished, kussed (Guy, chap, bloke) Despite being low on letters, oke or ou are huge words. Port Elizabeth, a town along the east coast near Jeffrey’s Bay. (Makes you totally wasted). (Watch out, chips) If a car is heading for you, and you haven't noticed, you friend will shout "Skay!" Lank Brah This is then wedged in the bottom of the bottleneck so the dagga doesn’t fall out when you bust it or take a hit. You do this by "pulling in" and "getting slotted". You can't blame the mistake. In the Eastern Cape, a semantic hotbed of slang, it’s often pronounced 'brorr', 'bree', 'bra' (same as underwear) and 'braaah', with a drawn out vowel. (Afrikaans – “Mistake”) "Oops, I made a blaps.". (Friend, buddy) "Jimmy's my big connection bru. (Afrikaans - Poison, cool) Not a computer image. Fail, flunk (Afrikaans) - "I dopped 2 standards at school". "When she left me my heart was stukkend" (my heart was smashed tight with despair), "I was stukkend last night" (wrecked) or "I smaak you stukkend" (I dig you lank). (Stoned) "Busting that neck made me so on." Park off In those days, you bought "lids" and "cans" not grams or bankies like you do today. ", Kittes ('Kittis') Lank younger surfers use this old mariner's greeting. "Some weird old ballie lives in that cave." 1. There is nothing better than a deep, distant groundswell textured into glassy perfection by a light bergwind. These examples do show proper contextual usages of the words in question according to the definitions, but they're anything but neutral. Jacked, Jacking Do you follow? ), Hose There are … (Paralytic drunk or totally high) "I was completely wasted at the party". (No way, absolutely not). "My china and me went for a trap to choon about the kiff words we found on this website." Bunny chow can also refer to "slap" (soft) chips in bread. Not to be confused with the emotional extreme associated with anger. Also heard when someone pulls off a lank clever move. or "My car is classic." this might be the answer: "Fully bru. See "puts on". BARREL Tube. Kaartjies Now it's too late for the offended one to save face. (Excellent, radical, good) Another example of how humans mutate meaning. The National Fish: Galjoen. South Africa. Rabid racists in the past have miraculously become PC people. Wikipedia articles are not: Due to the many AfDs which are initiated to enforce this policy and due to the resistance to such deletion by defenders of the glossaries, I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Slang glossaries to rewrite the policy in order to solve this problem and to readdress this question: should slang glossaries by allowed on Wikipedia? (Wow brah, you have a lot of money to buy fancy clothes hey?). (The) Boerewors Curtain ", Nought ('Nawt') I suggest the following is removed from the article as it only seems to promote a website: South African surfing slang — Surfafrikan, See the Wavescape website: http://www.wavescape.co.za/bot_bar/surfrikan/slang.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.182.68.25 (talk) 17:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC), What has been gained? Munged by How South Africa October 20, 2017, 12:27 pm 1.2k Views All countries have their own proverbs and wise sayings. (Totally amped up, revved up, happy) "The oke was so stoked after making that wave.". (This doesn’t mean my car is a Model T Ford. Can be spelled keef (drawing on the syllable emphatically) or kiff, a shorter, sharper version. Graze Bompie - A fat girl that is easy to get into bed. Smaak (New boy, fag) "The older school pupils had skivvies, who worked for them.". (Wimp) A naff is somebody lacking backbone, a complete wimp or wuss. Windmill Grommets are schoolkids. Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana border it to the north. South Africa shares a border with six countries. Apparently, it is derived from "skoolverlater", which is Afrikaans for "school leaver". Shark biscuit But a wave fades on the inside if the water gets deeper. But koppe, while literally being the plural of several heads, also refers to "heads" of dope, the choice bit at the end of each branch of the dagga tree. We had such a cool time at Jay Bay (enjoyment). (A drink, refreshment) "Hey brah, I'm lank thirsty, lets grab a wettie.". He's always pulling goofed actions." This is durban coloured slang! Wedge Let's duck (go)! Let's kap a tjallie. See the attached document for full guidelines. This painful condition is relieved by "choking the bishop" or "pulling your wire". "I smaak Sam stukkend." Try and refrain from saying, "It's fine, thanks". In other words, being able to remember what you did the night before. (Afrikaans - Stingy) This is not a fish, but a noun or verb referring to extreme stinginess. (Fountain of puke resembling a blanket when spraying out of your mouth). If it's too loose, expect a smouldering wad of tobacco, dagga, pitjies and gerrick to slam into the back of your throat. A suitable reply is: "No, fine", which actually means "Yes, I am fine". Lacking in the social graces, "Van" is usually a "plaas japie" (farm boy) from the platteland. Possibly from Afrikaans “bleek”, meaning “pale”.) Legend, Lej In Oz, there are a number of interesting variations, such as Esky Lid (Cool box lid) and toilet lid. "That session was lej, broer! Not sure why. (I was only joking). (Utility adjective) It is not used to paint a picture of "uniqueness", but rather as an extra adjective meaning "lank" or "kiff". (Child) Derived from "picannin", which appears to originate from Zimbabwe when it was called Rhodesia. Aggro Kowie Sarmie Variations include brah, bru, broer, bror, bro, bra, brra and brah. If you're good, the wetness hitting the heat will crack the bottle all the way round in a perfect circle. (Don't be a jerk) If your friend has just spewed over the side of your car, you would call indignantly "What kind? Yada yada Skaam (I have the total hots for Sam.). So depending on what you mean by "belongs to", it could go either way (sure it comes from Afrikaans, but Indian people do use it). Broer ('Broo') (Afrikaans – lit. 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