Grigamba is a derogatory term used in South Africa to refer to a foreigner.
Example
She really likes going out with ama grigamba.
BRB is an abbreviation for Be Right Back that is used when texting. It was mostly used during the mxit days.
Example
BRB, have to go take a shit.
Chappies
NEW
This refers to a chewing gum or bubble gum. It was borrowed from a popular brand by the same name.
Example
Can I have some Chappies, my breath doesnāt smell nice after smoking.
Is another word for nonsense or rubbish.
Example
The students write chuchubaby's during their exams.
Or who wrote the chuchubaby on my car.
Saluka is a Xhosa term that refers to the person you went to initiation school with.
Example
Good to see you, saluka. I last saw you after initiation school.
Sibeko is a term that has been used to refer to a drunkard. This is due to a character from the famous South African sitcom, Emzini wezinsizwa, who was always drunk.
Now Sibeko is synonymous for drunkard.
Now Sibeko is synonymous for drunkard.
Example
Why did you give him money, don't you know he's a Sibeko?
Hun is a South African slang term for a girl or chick.
Example
Khayelitsha huns will finish your money and leave you.
The indigenous name for the City of East London meaning the new farming area or new development. The name was given by the precolonial Xhosas to the City following its establishment after the Sixth Frontier War. Today it is mistakenly pronounced Gompo
owing to the Christianization of the Xhosa language by early African converts writers who owing to growing up in mission station could not comprehend Xhosa properly and had a habit of changing the spelling of Xhosa words they did not understand.
owing to the Christianization of the Xhosa language by early African converts writers who owing to growing up in mission station could not comprehend Xhosa properly and had a habit of changing the spelling of Xhosa words they did not understand.
Example
Going to East London?
Iām going to Gombo
Iām Xhosa, isidovela is a meal where rice is cooked with potatoes in the same pot. You mix it until it kinda looks like pap. You also have to add Spice for rice or Rajah to make it yellow.
Example
Today I am cooking isidovela.
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