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[SA] G. Butler Karoo Morning 94: ‘Tell me, Knaggs, are you afraid of Butler?’ ‘Of course not.’ [...] ‘Knaggs is “bang” of Butler!’ ‘I’m not.’.
at bang, adj.1
[SA] G. Butler Karoo Morning 42: She offered me a slice of cake. I shook my head and declined: ‘Uh-uh. Dik.’.
at dik, adj.1
[SA] (con. 1930s) G. Butler Karoo Morning 100: I told Bui if he said that again, I’d be happy to donner him up ‘into a raw sosatie.’.
at donner, v.
[SA] (con. 1930s) G. Butler Karoo Morning 81: The oubaas had told him No.
at ou, adj.
[SA] (con. 1930s) G. Butler Karoo Morning 99: Rookers’ Hoek, the illicit smokers’ site.
at roker, n.
[SA] (con. 1930s) G. Butler Karoo Morning 99: That a Rooinek should suggest that [...] unleashed a retaliatory stroke.
at rooinek, n.
[SA] G. Butler Karoo Morning 132: He loaded the Whippet up with samples of butter paper and stationery, and albums of H.M.V. records, plus an older child as gate-opener, and went smousing among the richer farmers [DSAE].
at smous, v.
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