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Boesman and Lena choose

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[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: boesman: You mean that day you get a bloody good hiding. lena: Aikona! I’ll go to the police.
at aikona!, excl.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: lena: Eina! [...] Watch! He’s going to kill me. boesman: You asking for it tonight, Lena.
at ask for it (v.) under ask, v.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Stop that baboon language!
at baboon, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Boesman’s alright. Two bottles and a pondokkie. Bakgat!
at bakgat, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: When the robot said go there at Berry’s corner I was nearly bang in my broek.
at bang, adj.1
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Sugar’s not enough man. I want some real sweetness. Then you can be as bedonnerd as you like.
at bedonderd, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: We’re whiteman’s rubbish. That’s why he’s so beneeked with us .
at beneuk(t), adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Don’t talk big. You’re frightened of the rope.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: It was bioscope, man! And I watched it [...] the way it happened. I saw it.
at bioscope, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Oppas they don’t het you. Blourokkie next time they catch you stealing.
at blourokkie (n.) under blou, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: And you, ou boeta, you’re in trouble!
at boet, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: Everyting! I want boggerall. It’s my life [...] I want nothing.
at boggeral, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: Then he goes and buggers up everything by dying!
at bugger up, v.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Am I crooked? It feels that way.
at crooked, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Quiet, hey! Let’s have a dop.
at dop, n.1
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: That long drol of nonsense that comes out when you open your mouth! [Ibid.] Act II: You paid a lot for that ou drol.
at drol, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: That piece of ground was rotten with dronkies.
at dronkie, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: The roads are crooked enough without you also being in a dwaal.
at dwaal, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: All you knew was to load up our things and take the empties to the bottle store.
at empty, n.1
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: I say! Ou Lena’s talking her head off tonight.
at talk one’s head off (v.) under head, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: You’re the hell-in. Don’t look at me, ou ding. Blame the whiteman. Bulldozer!
at hell-in, the, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: lena: I’ll fetch [it] from Swartkops tomorrow. boesman: To hell! He doesn’t belong to us.
at to hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Look at Lena! Ou Hotnot meid. Boesman’s her man. Gave her a hiding for dropping the empties.
at hiding, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: Is he hot stuff? Keeping you warm there?
at hot stuff, n.2
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Then shut up, or you will! I’m a happy Hotnot. laughing all the time . . . inside!
at hotnot, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: It was too early in the morning to have your life kicked in its moer again. Sitting there in the dust with the pieces . . . Kaalgat! That’s what it felt like!
at kaalgat, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: Then they found our place there in the bush. Loop, Hotnot! So Hotnot loops . . . to Swartkops.
at loop, v.2
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: It was too early in the morning to have your life kicked in its moer again. Sitting there in the dust with the pieces . . . Kaalgat! That’s what it felt like!
at moer, n.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: The earth will get naar when they push us in.
at naar, adj.
[SA] A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: That gebabbel of yours. When you poep it makes more sense. You know why? It stinks.
at poep, v.
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