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See also: Bakkie
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Afrikaans bakkie, from informal Northern Dutch bakkie, from bak + -ie (“-y, -ey”, diminutive suffix).
Noun[edit]
bakkie (plural bakkies)
- (Namibia, South Africa) A pick-up truck or ute, generally open, possibly fitted with a removable canopy or similar accessories, but distinct from a large truck and from a van or similar small utility vehicle.
Translations[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Afrikaans bak (“bowl, dish”).
Noun[edit]
bakkie (plural bakkies)
- (South Africa) A covered small bowl, such as a Tupperware container.
- 1901 October 11, Colonel F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 16, page 492:
- The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet.
- 2007, Bree O'Mara, Home Affairs, page 148:
- That done, she passed around a bakkie of home-made chocolate biscuits to all the girls.
References[edit]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050728130554/http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/comments/805/
- 1978 A Dictionary of South African English. Edited Jean Branford. Oxford.
Afrikaans[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bakkie (plural bakkies)
- A bakkie (pick-up truck or ute)
- Diminutive of bak
Descendants[edit]
- → English: bakkie
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bakkie n (plural bakkies)
- (Netherlands, colloquial) Alternative form of bakje.
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