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[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 142: Don’t hang around here like a lost fart in a thunderstorm.
at like a..., phr.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 151: ‘He’s a bloody Peeping Tom,’ the bare-arsed wonder yelled.
at bare-arsed, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 119: He takes the cash out of Black man’s pockets for his fart-arse zoot suits.
at fart-arsed, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 199: If that’s perfume you’re wearing, it didn’t come from Max Factor. Boy, you baff worse than a ricksha boy.
at baff, v.1
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 114: We’ll go to a jazz session. [...] It’s multi-racial up there at the ’Varsity – they mix. Very cool about colour, those bebops.
at bebopper, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 27: The dregs is what they gotta employ on the buses. Bladdy monkeys straight from the bush.
at bladdy, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 155: I got my pants down, Harry, when the boere smash through the door and haul me off to the big hotel. What timing, what rhythm these fat cats got!
at boer, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 193: Koos Mafeteng, a flyboy from the townships.
at fly-boy, n.1
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 125: No provision for non-Europeans, see? No food. No running water. No shithouses. The poor bozies had to kip in the back of the car, parked out in front of the hotel.
at bozie, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 167: You’re a pate de foie Marxist who has ratted on his brothers.
at champagne socialist (n.) under champagne, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 179: It must have chewed up your people.
at chew up, v.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 65: Hop in Chief, before the cops lumber you for loitering.
at chief, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 54: Koelietown was crammed into a corner of the city.
at Koelietown (n.) under coolie, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 16: It was the cozzie designed for a stripling pressed into the service of a well-endowed Harry Moto.
at cossie, n.1
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 63: With your complexion, crissy hair and all, next to you even my kaffir girl’s good looking.
at crissy, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 83: Splendid in his new, black, clerical walking-out suit and gleaming dog-collar.
at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 157: He is zonked to the eyeballs on dagga and skokiaan.
at to the eyeballs (adv.) under eyeball, n.2
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 91: This girl, sorry, woman, fancy-pants woman, I should have said.
at fancy pants, adj.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 194: We picked up a fair smattering of froggy.
at Froggie, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 41: Young fool. You’ll grease the halter, yet, Moto. By all means go to hell in your own way then – but first get your matric.
at halter, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 189: Saphead [...] they’re not allowed on Sunday.
at sap-head, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 133: The whole damn town from the mayor down, have all been dipping their wicks in the black honeypots.
at honeypot, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 155: ‘The big hotel?’ [...] ‘You don’t know it? Everybody knows the big hotel. The cells, man, in the Central Police Station.’.
at hotel, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 146: Jacko would spit water and start calling Joerie a coloured, a klonkie, a houtkop, a moffie, an Abo, a kaffir and asking which hottentot slept with his old lady.
at houtkop, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 100: The top button lying snug under the fat Windsor knot of your Slim Jim tie.
at Slim Jim, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 46: ‘What is your name?’ [...] ‘It’s John, baas. My name is John.’ I began to understand then that not only were they everywhere, but they were all called John.
at John, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 155: They did it just as I’m going to jump this lovely lady, this real babe, Dolores Mkwenzi.
at jump, v.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 104: ‘My blood’s all right. Skin’s the problem. Say a whitekaffir, then . . . ’ ‘Well, I suppose you mean as opposed to a Bantu, a non-white, an African, a native, or an ordinary common-or-garden kaffir?’.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 31: ‘White kaffir!’ His words carried very well. In fact they were positively bruited abroad. Passersby took the full force of them and stared at me.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] C. Hope Separate Development 13: The Yannovitchs drove an old green, hump-back Dodge to Sunday mass. Parked in among the Vauxhalls and Morrises it looked like a kaffir taxi.
at kaffir taxi (n.) under kaffir, adj.
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