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You remember back in school days how many ’slang’ words we had? Our parents, well mine anyways, never understood what the hell I was talking about. Even before the shizzle-nizzle language of Snoop, we had entire vocabularies made up entirely out of words that we’d developed and invented.
Here’s a list of the ones I can remember:
- kiff - really nice
- cool - most emphasized in the pronunciation, ‘kewel’
- duidelik - South African slang word hinting towards something being really cool
- shweet - used mostly by surfers
- lank - means lots of
Ah..the good days.. Can you add any from your childhood, or even words you use now that you find yourself having to explain?
Foh Shizzy, here’s my lizzy:
Old skewl list:
Lank - Allot, or to a large degree
Naught Brew - Absolutely not
Cereal? (Are you serious? ) - to which one would reply,
Dead Cereal! (Yes my fellow, I am serious)
Slightly more modern:
Whack - That’s interesting
Toit - Well rounded
Swakke - Terrible
I’m from the Oos-Kaap. Here’s a shortlist from the backwaters (excluding those already mentioned above):
MIFF (aka SIFF): Foul or disgusting.
NOOIT: No or generally negative.
BRU: Practically any other male human.
SWAMP-DONKEY: An un-attractive female, THE most derogatory term for a woman.
Therefore (when saving your good friend from a bad judgement call): “Nooit bru, that swamp-donkey is miff!”
MISSION: A great voyage or difficult task.
POMPED: Extremely tired. This is all too often misconstrued to be a sexual reference.
CHOP-HEAD (aka CHOP-NECK): A jerk.
Therefore (after your good friend forgot pick you up from the beach): “You chop-head! We had to mission all the way. Now I’m pomped!”
I always loved:
RADICAL: Rad
MINT: Awesome
GOOYAH!: A cry of excitement
and BASTARD (still used today).
My personal fav used to be ‘foelie’. Used when u agree with a statement