Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a cigarette.

1963		L.F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 105: When he asks you to ‘gooi a man ’n skyfie’ he wants you to give him a cigarette.
1974		Eng. Usage in Southern Afr. V:1 10: Tobacco is snout [...] Skuif is a cigarette [DSAE].
1980		A. Dangor ‘Waiting for Leila’ Waiting for Leila (2001) 63: ‘Hey mister, give us a skuif man!’ A puff on my wet, bitter cigarette, and who will give you a skuif tomorrow, when the fire is dead?
2011		IOL Cape News (Johannesburg) 18 Mar. 🌐 Called Skyf, the film is about nicotine addiction.

2. marijuana.

2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 58: It was a type of seedless skyf also known as sensimielia.
2008		IOL Cape News (Johannesburg) 28 May 🌐 JR mostly raps about women, skuif and making people dance.

3. a marijuana cigarette.

1962		A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 77: Pull a skuif, pal?
1978		in K. Parker S. Afr. Novel in Eng. 174: He took two long puffs at the dope and let the smoke out through his nostrils [...] Then he looked at Michael Adonis and said, ‘Pull a skuif, pal?’.
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 39: Light my skyf!
1984		P. Slabolepszy ‘Over the Hill’ in Mooi Street (1994) 60: You got a skyf?
1990		P. Hotz Muzukuru 47: I rooked a skyf.
2003		IOL Cape News (Johannesburg) 9 Nov. 🌐 If Rastafarians [...] had their way, a skyf would be sold over the counter.

4. a suck, a taste.

1985

B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 53: See this orange [...] here have a skuif? It’s lovely.