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gogga not a Bantuism

"gogga - bug (from Khoikhoi xo-xon)", so-called Khoikhoi is not a Bantu language, but is part of a separate linguistic language group. "dagga" - marijuana is also from Khoikhoi, which is not part of the Nguni/Bantu language group.

Profanities, derogareries and explinations fixed.

befok - really good, exciting, cool; as in "The rock-show was befok." [Do not confuse withgefok.] Paradoxically, also can mean "crazy" in a very strong sense, as in "Are you befok?" — definitely not a polite enquiry.

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befok - really good, exciting, cool; as in "The rock-show was befok." [Do not confuse with gefok.] Paradoxically, also can mean "crazy" in a very strong sense, as in "Are you befok?" — derogatory(err:definitely not a polite enquiry). Ek het daai ou befok - meaning I cheated that guy in a transaction. Profanity - the base fok meaning fuck

blou - being sad as in the english language feeling blue. ____If a guy is blue because he drank to much he is dead due to suffocating on somethingin his drunken state.

Deleted -- *bot - boring or lame. Often used along with kak, i. e. "That's kak bot" ___ Huh? Bot is a know word in Afrikaans meaning closed off or being blunt in your explanation. The expression used here indicates that the speaker is actually trying to say "dis kak boet" meaning "that's shit, dude"

doos - idiot (more likely an "asshole" or "cunt"; can also mean "female genitalia") (profanity). For example: "Rory Da Costa is the biggest doos to walk the planet!" From the Afrikaans word for box (rude).

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doos - idiot (more likely an "asshole" or "cunt"; can also mean "female genitalia") (profanity)(rude). For example: "Rory Da Costa is the biggest doos to walk the planet!" From the Afrikaans word for box as used in common everyday language. Though people trying to speaking Afrikaans in a pure form still use the word doos when referring to a small box.

Dutchman - affectionate term for an Afrikaner. __ Last time someone called me a Dutchman he walked away with a broken nose and a couple of other bruises (ED: thus proving to him that I was a Dutchman). Common people we don't want a couple of international incidents with the 2010 soccer where a Afrikaans speaking person assaulted a tourist for calling him a dutchman.

Page needs to be placed into a watch bin or something and cleaned-up or taken down. Spelling and terms used are of such a nature I can spend a whole week editing the page and only then fixed-up all the derogatory entries.

If help is needed then people from www.woes.co.za can be contacted with editing the page. They are all poets loving the languages and slang of our wonderful country South Africa.

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Hamafalama / halafalala

Does anyone have any information, records on or sources of this expression, uttered by children when someone has done something wrong and is sure to get into trouble for it? Doppiotempo (talk) 12:15, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mik as a word for feinting

I don't how it's spelt but we used to use it as children. To "mik" someone is to make a movement that suggests an attack, but at the last moment, withdraws it before making contact. We used to use in the context of feinting a dribble while playing soccer. Maqdisi (talk) 06:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Break up?

Does anyone else think that having this broken up into just two sections is not enough? Each of the two lists is massive, and I'm thinking that it should be split into maybe ten or a dozen lists of two or three letters a piece. I especially saw that the P's are disastrously out of order when looking up padkos, which I need to add to the list. Straightening them out would be a more manageable set of edits if I first made a bunch of smaller lists. Any thoughts? --Eliyahu S ^Talk 15:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]