Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the daughter of wealthy parents, whose main interest is her wardrobe, appearance, boyfriend (as an acquisition not a person) and the expenditure of money. Such girls, as the etymology implies, are Jewish; black and Boer versions are ebony-kugel and boere-kugel respectively; thus kugelese, the jargon spoken between such young women.

1970		New Nation Oct. 17: He married, quite thoughtlessly, a middle-class Kugel, but soon sees that her eccentric zany charm is merely slovenly vacuousness [DSAE].
1977		P.-D. Uys Paradise is Closing Down in Gray Theatre One (1978) 147: Anna’s friend – you know the old kugel with the wart on her nose.
1982		C. Hope Private Parts 126: The kugels vied with one another to capture Wolferman. Girls like Melissa Dworkin who had been a rag princess. [Ibid.] 127: Ruthie Shapiro, acknowledged queen of the kugels, got closest to scoring Wolferman.
1993		M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 171: Uh! She’s such a Kugel. [...] we call all these rich, spoiled white housewives, the Sandton type, koogles.
2003		K. Cage Gayle 78/2: kugel pram n. convertible car [from kugel a Jewish cake, the term is South African to denote a spoiled, rich girl and pram a baby buggy].
2005		P. Hopkins Worst Journeys: Anthol. of S. Afr. Travel Disasters 222: Strong, highly ambitious and experienced (white) Cathy O’Dowd was painted (unfairly) as a kugel from the ‘leafy’ northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
2010		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 12 Mar. 🌐 As an aspirant kugel Lerato Mogoatlhe gets to live out her fantasy holiday in Plettenberg bay.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1999

Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 June 🌐 The kugel lady [...] was loading a nice wooden fire surround into her 4x4.