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[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 26: My mother-in-law is a Grade A bitch.
at grade A, adj.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 27: I could smell last week’s babbalaas on my body. Which reminds me! Make sharp! I have to hit the off-licence store.
at babalaas, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 14: I am honoured to be his bra! Ja!
at bra, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 8: You get a cockstand if you see an advert for stockings on the side of a bus even.
at cockstand, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 27: She [...] lights herself a gwaai.
at gwaai, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 31: Smash your piss champagne . . . and your whitey laaities.
at piss, adj.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘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.
at poes-boekie (n.) under poes, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘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!
at poes, n.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 32: Voetsak! Voetsak! Voetsak! Just go away!
at voetsak!, excl.
[SA] (con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 31: Smash your piss champagne . . . and your whitey laaities.
at whitey, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 59: Look at me, babbalaas again. I must give up these bladdy chommies of mine – bad influence.
at babalaas, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 52: When I was a laaitie I wasn’t bang to do anything.
at bang, adj.1
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA 1997 54: Now there’s blackjacks – uncivilized Zulus man, fuckin’ ignorant kaffirs from the farms and they tell us what we must do.
at blackjack, n.2
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 49: Hey, they’ve taken my bladdie pink comb.
at bladdy, adj.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 40: I can’t sit in the blerry rain.
at blerry, adj.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 42: Do you see that cherry in the white dress lying on the grass?
at cherry, n.1
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 45: We’re all chinas here, man.
at china (plate), n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 44: You see this chommy he promised me and he kept his word.
at chommie, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 39: Two days on the road without a chow and now this has got to happen to me.
at chow, n.1
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 53: I gave him an apple that time and he chowed it.
at chow, v.2
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 60: You should have heard me talk. I could have made Pik Botha sound like a doos.
at doos, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 49: We not fighting, we gonna dop.
at dop, v.2
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 43: I don’t drink flam. I’d rather make a plan for a decent dop even if it’s just a nippy.
at dop, n.1
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 84: Ay shut up Boytije – you’re so full of shit I can’t see the colour of you face.
at full of shit, phr.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 45: Ja, lift your alie man, lift your gat. [Ibid.] 62: You lie man. You talk through your gat.
at gat, n.2
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 45: bles: Hey! My brother, you know what’s a rabbit? charmaine: What? Ou Hennie.
at hen, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 42: You’ll check when I bring Charmaine, jailbait man, fourteen years old, nice and fresh.
at jailbait, n.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 39: Hell, that Giovanni, I bet you he’s jolling somewhere.
at jol, v.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 75: I know he jols here [...] I know he’s got a place near Joubert Park – he has to jol here.
at jol, v.
[SA] B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 51: My mommy used to give me kak. You too young for boyfriends – you too young to wear lipstick. [...] Fuckin’ nag, nag, nag so I ran away to Durban.
at give someone kak (v.) under kak, n.
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