Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (S.Afr.) unpleasant, nasty.

1971		Sun. Times (Jo’burg) 12 Sept. 4: A former mayor of Naboomspruit once described Naboomspruit as a kak ou dorpie [DSAE].
1989		C.J. Fourie Big Boys in Kani (1994) 115: This is a kak game.
1991		P. Slabolepszy Braait Laaities 10: How was that? Kak? If you think it was kak, you can say so. I have a very big heart.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 59: Do you feel kak my broer?
2008		A. Lovejoy ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 3: Making them poes scared of him. Kak poes scared of Hond!
2008		Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 18 Dec. 🌐 Diary of a Kak Year [...] the kakkest year of my life.
2011		Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 20 Mar. 🌐 I find clubs generally kak and boring.
2018		Sowetan Live 2 Mar. 🌐 Somzi you are a terrible role for gay men and you create a really kak impression .

2. useless, incompetent.

2007

Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 14 Dec. 🌐 I don’t think whites should be complaining how kak the black govenment is.

3. used deriv. to mean remarkably , outstandingly.

2010

IOL News (SA) 9 June 🌐 They seem more enraptured by the many adjectival uses of k*k and describe their experience of the gig as k*k-awsome, k*k-funny and k*k-hectic.