Chomi

Chomi is a South African slang term for "friend", "pal", "mate".


Chomi, let's go out tonight.

Oviedo

Greeting to a King or mighty one


Oviedo oo
Greetings to my king

Braai Master

The person who is making sure that the braai meat is properly done and everything goes well during a braai.


The braai master for today's braai was Thabo hence the meat is not nice.

Cahmo

A Liberian term for toilet.


I am going to use the cahmo.

Herero

A person who loves meat and listen to One Blood all day.


Lavas is such a herero

Tempela

To claim you can do something, or you can do it better.


Wena awitsi selo wa're tempela fela.

Askies

Askies is an Afrikaans term for Sorry. It is however used informally in almost all the South African languages for apologising.


I didn't see you there, askies for stepping on you.

Park the bus

In soccer, to park the bus means to play very defensively, to get a lot of players behind the ball. Imagine a bus parked in front of the goal. It is almost impossible to score.


Park the bus, Man United. Playing football the Mourinho way

Skopas

Term mostly used in the Northern parts of the country to refer to sweet flavoured and coloured popcorns.
Some parts of the country call them amaKip-kip


I bought my nephews some skopas from the Spaza shop.

Dololo

Dololo means nothing, nix, fokkol!


The way she likes talking but logic dololo.



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