bakkie

See also: Bakkie

English[edit]

WOTD – 16 December 2021

Borrowed from Afrikaans bakkie, and then either:^[1]

from Northern Dutch bakkie (informal), from Dutch bakje (“container; drinking vessel; (archaic) carriage for passengers”), from bak (“container; drinking vessel; vehicle; part of a vehicle for carrying loads; part of a carriage for carrying passengers”) (see further at that entry) + -je (diminutive suffix); or
from Afrikaans bak (“container; part of a vehicle for carrying loads”) (from Dutch bak; see above)^[2] + -ie (diminutive suffix).^[3]

(Received Pronunciation, General American, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈbæki/, /ˈbʌ-/
Audio (General South African) (file)
Rhymes: -æki, -ʌki
Hyphenation: bak‧kie
Homophone: baccy

bakkie (plural bakkies) (Namibia, South Africa)

A small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container. [from late 19th c.]
- 1901 October 11, F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 16, Pietermaritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, paragraph 21, page 492, column 2:
  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, Johannesburg, Gauteng: 30°South Publishers, →ISBN, page 148:
  [S]he passed around a bakkie of home-made chocolate biscuits to all the girls.
(road transport) A small pick-up truck or ute, generally open and sometimes fitted with a removable canopy, but distinct from an enclosed van and a large truck. [from mid 20th c.]

small bowl or container

small pick-up truck or ute

^ “bakkie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “bakkie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “bakkie, n.”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2023.
^ “-ie, suffix”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2023.

bakkie (plural bakkies)

bakkie n (plural bakkies)