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[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 2 Feb. n.p.: But what has remained a mystery is the extent to which white colonists used the drug. Indications are that some were getting goofed on a little weed.
at goofed (up), adj.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (Cape Town) 23 Apr. 🌐 Such a possibility gained credibility when last week the ANC announced that it was engaged in amnesty talks with its political stoepkakker, the New National Party.
at stoepkakker, n.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 21 Dec.–3 Jan. 20: The term ‘black diamonds’ was coined by marketers to describe well-educated, salaried African folk [...] there are 2.6 million black people in this country who qualify as ‘black diamonds’.
at black diamond (n.) under black, adj.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 7 Dec.–3 Jan. 53: Dilettantes from the city [...] will tell you the Karoo is flat and boring. Boy, are they mistaken.
at boy!, excl.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 21 Dec.–3 Jan. 48: [cartoon] Three ATM’s – Ka-Boom!
at kaboom!, excl.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 7 Dec.–3 Jan. 48: [cartoon] Ten Tsotsis Leaping.
at tsotsi, n.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) 21 Dec.–3 Jan. 21: You can have a brilliant shot and think: ‘Now I’ve waxed it.’.
at wax, v.2
[SA] Mail and Guardian (S. Afr.) Travel 3 Jan. 53: For those who like a bit more attitude and growl to their [bikers] machines, there’s the Lion Rally.
at attitude, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 15 Apr. 🌐 Zuma to wed fourth wife [...] [comment] Gosh; one would have thought that Zuma is so busy f*****g the country that he’d little time left for anything else!
at fuck, v.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 Bloody hear me [...] Please hear me! Buy this ruddy book I spent years writing.
at bloody, adv.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 30 May 🌐 At face value it seemed a doddle; a regular bit of ‘standoeras’.
at doddle, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 After your economy 10-hour red-eye flight, you arrive at 8pm in a strange city.
at red-eye, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 In the good old days [...] you were schmoozed, treated like royalty, with a public relations flunky at your beck and call.
at flunky, n.2
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 There are folk who see these [promotional] trips as freebies.
at freebie, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 30 May 🌐 I ended up in the Dockyard Fuzz (officially known as the SA Naval Police).
at fuzz, n.1
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 30 May 🌐 Some of your friends were in [prison] for a little Mary-Jane.
at mary jane, n.2
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 In the good old days [...] you were schmoozed, treated like royalty, with a public relations flunky at your beck and call.
at schmooze, v.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 12 July 🌐 There are no sozzled chats in an exotic bar late at night.
at sozzled, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (SA) 16 Apr. [Intrnet] If you are going to lie, then lie big - Goebbels would be proud of these whoppers.
at whopper, n.
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