poes n.
1. the vagina; thus generic for sexual intercourse.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Crime in S. Afr. 283: He said he wished he was close to her now so that he could stick his prick into her poesie. | |
| (con. late 1940s) Boyhood (1998) 57: The language of the Afrikaans boys is filthy beyond belief. They command a range of obscenity far beyond his, to do with fok and piel and poes. | |
| No Space on Long Street (2000) 11: How can a hoer kiss a drunk who pays for poes. It’s bad enough having to be pomped. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Salt and Honey 148: They wore nothing underneath [...] Mmm, would the little one have those long flaps like her mother had in her poes? | |
| ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 2: Hond just wants what Hond wants – Money, mandrax and poes. | |
| Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 10 Jan. 🌐 The word ‘p—s’ is really down there and would normally be the last thing you would hear before a physical fight breaks out. |
2. the buttocks.
| ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 46: What do you do? Sit on your flat poes. |
3. a general term of abuse.
| (con. 1976) ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 32: You fucken kaffir poes! You cunt! I’ll eat your balls off! You fucken houtkop! I’ll kick holes in your fucking black pissvel! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Dancing Shoes is Dead 242: ‘Jou poes’ — cunt — ‘jou fokkin’ poes!’. | |
| Acid Alex 212: This gatta is an absolute poes. | |
| ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 3: Making them poes scared of him. Kak poes scared of Hond! | |
 | see sense 1. |
In compounds
a pornographic book or magazine.
| (con. 1976) ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 5: He said if we stayed in that camp we would probably become part of the second lot and read Poes-boekies and pull wire for most of our two years. |
an insult.
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 ‘You poesface’, [...] cunt face. | |
| Magic Alex 171: So let’s call the boere, poeshead. [Ibid.] 198: I’m going to kick both of you in your mother’s poes [...] Mommy’s little poes-lickers. |
a reformatory.
| Acid Alex 109: We were in for the same long ride in Uncle Guvvie’s Poesplaas. |
(S.Afr.) a slut, lit. ‘cunt-thief’.
| ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 3: Raping the poes-tiefie till she screamed. |
(S.Afr.) cheap wine, ‘rotgut’.
| Acid Alex 184: The favourite was a sparkling wine [...] Actually it was just poeswyn injected with gas. The other dop was neat cane spirits. | |
| ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 4: A plestiek melk bottel still half-full of the dirty yellow poeswyn. |