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[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 58: Now, look here [...] stop playing ducks and drakes [...] Playing the idiot.
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 2: ‘These people [....] are mad!’ – He used the colloquial word, bedonderd.
at bedonderd, adj.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 11: The boks – the women, ’cepting old Malay bokkies, didn’t have no purdah!
at bok, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 131: ‘Don’t you want me, bokkie?’ she asked.
at bokkie, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 59: I ’eard it you living in the Cape now. [...] You look like a Cape-jie already.
at Capey, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 35: What’s cookin’ on the religious front?
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 55: Yes you, coolie boy! I’m – tawkingg!
at coolie, adj.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 124: He used to be a killer-diller, that guy.
at killer-diller, n.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 15: When I think of all that dop brandy in the cellar!
at dop, n.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 156: A firm of Afrikaaner Nationalists [...] were assembling an armed mob of ducktails or European hooligans to move in if any demonstrations against rent increases occurred.
at ducktail (n.) under duck, n.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 15: All those red-hot hotch-hotcha girls – chaps! We must move.
at hotcha, adj.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 97: ‘Give for mevrou one from that hottentot,’ the fisherman said.
at Hottentot, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 11: There were so many parties and jorls.
at jol, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 14: I think of Frederic surrounded by all those lovely Paarl bokkies, oodles of Paarl lulus – hell’s teeth, man!
at lulu, n.1
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 178: Vam, kid. Cut a line quick. [...] They gonna moor you!
at moer, v.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 82: I wanted to get out of South Africa. The country was giving me the screaming shits!
at shits, the, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 76: A man from out of town was held up by skollies at gun point.
at skolly, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 59: ’Ow’s all those Cape Town steakies? [...] You could fix me up with some Malay goosie? Okay. Sweet.
at steak, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 59: ’Ow’s all those Cape Town steakies? [...] You could fix me up with some Malay goosie? Okay. Sweet.
at sweet!, excl.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 125: Bad for tum-tum. Gives Aisha colley-wobbles.
at tum, n.
[SA] R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 178: Vam, kid. Cut a line quick. [...] They gonna moor you!
at vamoose, v.
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