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GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND WORDS
Ag Shame - Oh shame or Oh poor you. (Often used in a derogatory sense)
Amarula - Liqueur made from the fruit of the Marula tree only found in Southern Africa
Baba boep - Baby bump, baby belly
Bakkie - Slang for a pickup van/LDV. But it is also a small bowl
Berg - Mountain; Drakensberg mountain range, mostly referred to as ‘the Berg’
Bloody - Used along with hell instead of curse words, like damn, fuck
Boet - Brother
Boeta - Brother
Bokke - An abbreviation of Springbokke - The SA National Rugby Team
Broer - Brother
Broers - Brothers
Bro, Bra, Bru, - All slang for brother used in different parts of SA
Boerewors - A type of sausage but no translation available, just known as boerewors
Boykie - Slang for little boy. Sometimes used to show affection between male friends
Braai - Barbeque
Braaivleis - Barbequed meat
Buffel - African Buffalo
Bundu - South African slang for uninhabited wild regions far from towns and cities
Bundu bashing - Slang for off roading in uninhabited areas
Dankie - Thank you
Duikertjies - Small African antelope
Durbs - Slang for Durban
Eina - Ouch, ow
Eish - Used to convey amazement, similar to ‘oh wow’ or disbelief
Ek - I
Foeitog - Poor you; shame
Fok; my fok - Fuck
Fokken - Fucking
Hemel - Heaven
In - In
Ja right - As if
Ja - Yes
Jy - You
Joburg; Jozi - Slang for Johannesburg
Kak - Shit
Kind - Child
Klap - Smack, hit
Klippies - Gravel, small stones, or as used in the book, slang for Klipdrift Brandy
Klim - Climb
Klim in - Get in, climb in
Klub - Club
Kosmos - Cosmos
Krappie - Small fast moving crab
Krokodil - Crocodile
Lewe - Life
Lief - Love
Liefie - Lovey
Liewe Hemel - Good Heavens, Dear Heaven
Maklik - Easy
Meerkat - Meercat; Suricate, South African Mongoose
My - My
Myne - Mine
Nee - No
No worries - Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry
Ons - We
Padda - Frog
Parra - Slang for Pussy
Plakkies - Flip flops
Rantjies - Hills
Ratel - Cape Honey Badger
Saam - Together
Skaam - Shy or slang for having no shame or slang for shameless
Skapie - Slang for lamb. Is often used as an endearment
Skinner - Gossip
Sies - Yuck; Yucky; Yuk; Yukky
Siestog - What a pity; Shame; Poor you
Slim - Intelligent, clever
Slimjannie - Intelligent, clever, a little bit of a know it all
Spook - Ghost
Springbok - Springbok. The name of the SA National Rugby tea
Springbokkie - A shot in the colours of the national team - green and gold
Staan - Stand
Steenbokkies - Small South African antelope
Stukkend - Broken, but also slang for drunk
Tekkies, Tackies - Running shoes, trainers
Thank the Pope - Thank goodness
Tjommie, Tjomma - Slang for friend, alternative spelling - Chommie, Chomma
Veldt - South African elevated open grasslands
Some words haven’t been used in the book but I added them as a kind of reference.
Make your own Springbokkie (Careful, it kicks!)
In a tall shot glass pour the following:
3 Parts Peppermint Liqueur
1 Part Amarula Liqueur
Pour the Amarula so it floats on top of the Peppermint Liqueur
You know what to do next!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As ever, standing in my corner and cheering me on are my amazing three. You have been my biggest fans and supporters from the very start. Love you to the outer universe and back. Having you all home for Christmas is the best present ever!
A huge hug and a very big thank you to Danielle Burrows, my daughter, for the teasers and cover design. Once again they blew my socks off.
Thanks to my betas, Mari and Pieter. I can’t do this without your help. Thank you.
Thank you to Unsplash and all the photographers for allowing free use of their photos. Their generosity made the teasers and cover possible.
A huge thank you to my fellow South African and International authors for their support and encouragement and making this journey so much more fun.
A huge, huge, HUGE, thank you to the pimp groups who have been spreading the word about my books. Especially to you, Fabiola Cadet-Destil, girl you seriously rock!
To the readers, thank you for giving the Iron Dogz MC your support. The Iron Dogz love and appreciate those reviews and ratings and so do I!
