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[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 89: Don’t be such a boil-in-the-arse, man.
at pain in the arse, n.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 95: Our weekend in the mountains was one long-drawn-out fuck.
at fuck, n.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 88: When he dived in he struck the bottom and the piccanins who were with him pulled him out.
at piccaninny, n.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 106: It involved a Cabinet Minister’s son, accused of ‘salting’ a newly opened mine in South-West Africa.
at salt, v.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 115: ‘I shit on this Court!’ he shouted [...] ‘I shit on the lot of you! I shit on the whole sordid system which forces one to turn against one’s friends.’.
at shit on (v.) under shit, v.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 88: Mum, you needn’t worry any more. Bernard is all right for he’s getting stroppy again.
at stroppy, adj.
[SA] A. Brink Rumours of Rain 247: We always got along with the Kaffirs [...] Nowadays they’re so cheeky [...] It’s a real problem. They’re getting too white, is what I say.
at white, adj.
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