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Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty choose

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[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 69: I think our house would probably have been as artycrafty as Snow White’s cottage.
at arty-(and-)crafty, adj.
[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 174: Boesman had made enough progress to justify a rise in wages.
at boesman, n.
[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 51: Jeezywheezy, it’s a brass bedstead!
at jeezle-peezle!, excl.
[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 175: He did leave six months later, to try his luck in ‘Joeberk’.
at Joburg, n.
[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 76: We gave them the ingredients for a big brew of kaffir beer.
at kaffir beer (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[SA] K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty 46: He said [...] he was very sick and needed a regemaker for the love of God. We told him to go and sleep it off.
at regmaker, n.
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