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[NZ] Style Oct. 41: ‘Johnnies’ (soldiers), ‘Zola Budds’ (slow SADF hippos) and ‘Mary Deckers’ (fast hippos) [DSAE].
at Zola Budd, n.
[NZ] Style Oct. 39: They ‘swaai a zephyr’, or get ‘goofed’ on a ‘skyf’ (smoke dagga) before ‘gooing pomp’ (making love) and then ‘zonking out’ (going to sleep) [DSAE].
at gooi pomp (v.) under gooi, v.
[NZ] Style Oct. 39: Southern Suburbs Joller: [...] I asked the hout on the site to gooi me some start so we could get some graze [DSAE].
at gooi, v.
[NZ] Style Oct. 41: Sweet relief from these heavy pressures comes in the form of the ‘phuza-cabin’ or ‘spot’ (shebeen) where you drink [...] with your ‘phuza-buddies’ or any good guy you can call your ‘bra’ [ [].
at phuza-buddy (n.) under phuza, n.
[NZ] Style Oct. 41: Sweet relief from these heavy pressures comes in the form of the ‘phuza-cabin’ or ‘spot’ (shebeen) where you drink ‘ubrown’ (brandy) or ‘poplars’ (beer) with your ‘phuza-buddies’ Or any good guy you can call your ‘bra’ [DSAE].
at popla, n.
[NZ] Style Oct. 40: In the army [...] Afrikaners are ‘rocks’ or ‘pebbles’ [DSAE].
at rock, n.
[NZ] Style Oct. 36: ‘What’s your case tcherrie?’ ‘So how many chicks you got?’ ‘You tuning me grief!’ [DSAE].
at tune someone grief (v.) under tune, v.
[NZ] in Style May 108: As we leave, fellow-joller Cheryl [...] claimed that some jock had put some thing in her palm as she passed a table [DSAE].
at joller, n.
[NZ] Style Feb. 125: Guava: There seems to be some confusion about this demographic ugliness. Some say it stands for Growing Up And Very Ambitious, others say Grown Up And Very Ambitious and a third opinion exists that the little brutes are not Very Ambitious at all, but just Vaguely Ambitious ... There are a number of professions and careers to pursue which would give the aspirant Guava sufficient velocity to be catapulted into the limelight [DSAE].
at guava, n.2
[NZ] Style Feb. 41: God’s the hell in with the Boere nation, who pray like Pharisees but never stop bickering.
at hell-in, the, adj.
[NZ] Style July 41: To the average South African in Blairgowrie a porra .. is a porra. Half the time the South African’s not aware that the person he’s referring to is actually Greek ... Porra is a swearword in Portuguese, what a labourer building a house says when he drops a brick on his foot. One theory claims the term was first used by upper class Portuguese to denote the lower orders, who were always shouting ‘Porra!’ Another theory claims the word comes from the lazy Afrikaans pronunciation ‘Porregees’ [DSAE].
at Porra, n.
[NZ] Style Feb. 82: A Queenspark boucle jacket, R180. which was joujed up with beading by Dickie Longhurst and diamante buttons from Liberty’s [DSAE].
at jewish, v.
[NZ] in Style Nov. 96: I do flowers for weddings, social events, the whole toot [DSAE].
at toot, n.4
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 7: Touched down at 6 a.m. Crimbo morning.
at crimbo, n.
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 161: Didn’t even own ’is own gaff no more.
at gaff, n.1
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 10: I [...] stormed from the bedroom with me grundies halfway on.
at grundies, n.
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 162: The patsy has to contemplate a future of avin ’is plates of meat swept out from under ’im.
at plates (of meat), n.
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 7: Didn’t stop him doing a number on me, though. Smoother than a peeled onion, our Jock. [...] Still, it had to happen: every London virgin eventually gets fucked.
at do a number on (v.) under number, n.
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 10: I fancied a drinking buddy and a pub session as much as any Ocker in a foreign city.
at ocker, n.
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 161: Even when Dessie ad the 38 to his temple and [...] were under firm orders to squeeze, the toff ad nuffin for me but snot and tears.
at snot and tears (n.) under snot, n.1
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 161: I’m a reasonable judge, and ’is sob story were convincin.
at sob story (n.) under sob, n.1
[NZ] C. Marriner Southern Style 8: I didn’t even spit the dummy when a fuck-up took me on a five-click detour.
at spit (out) the dummy (v.) under spit, v.
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