Scuppered or scuppering = f@(ked or f@(king you

Madala (maybe madula) = male elder

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Howabout "chuffed" for enthusiastic?

More correctly, "Chuffed" = pleased, or very pleased with oneself, as in having performed some deed for a very satisfactory result.

"Keen" would be the match for Enthusiastic.

Carry on to the robot ... drive to the traffic light.
Takeaway ... fast food to go.
Queue ... people in a line.
Advert ... ad.
Expiry ... expiration.


Bill Quimby

Cal

You Americans do not speak English mate!

All of it except Head=bullet, Robot=traffic light and Parafin are used in India as well as NZ.

The original school English Grammar text was Wren & Martin - various level and we studied them right through school in the 60s & 70. Now that same series of books is published in India with the same old grammar but Indian names!

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Originally posted by shakari:
Many/most of those are commonly used in many/most English speaking countries outside of the USA.

Most of those are British in origin. As for "heads" for bullets, we'll, just plain ignorance.

pissing about - tomfoolery or messing around
donkey's years - ages, a long time ago
yonks - ages, a long time ago
knackered - tired, worn out
zonked - tired, worn out
put a sock in it - shut up
wagon-burner - Hindu
Chili-cracker - Indian
cock up - grave mistake
dog's dinner - when one makes a mess of things
pear-shaped - dog's dinner
take a slash - urinate
shitfaced - drunk
sloshed - drunk
up shit creek - overwhelmed with problems
sweet fanny adams - sweet fuck all

The one I heard a lot (by the Brit types) was 'sodding'.

And lets not forget 'fanny'....as it has a different meaning in Zim-RSA-Namibia than what we are used to in the USA. I got a funny look from the PH's wife when I mentioned something about putting gear in my in my fanny pack.

Fanny in Australia is the front bum (Vag).

Insult to an Aussie male is- "You're a big front bum"
ie " You're a big girl" as girls only have front bums

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
What about "Oakes" (sp) Never really knew who that referred to.

Mark

Ou = "guy"
tjie = diminutive (pronounced "kee")
outjie = "good old boy" (sorta like)
abbreviated to what sounds like "oak", pluralized to "oaks", Anglicized Afrikaans slang
[Note: plurals in Afrikaans are done adding an 'e' vs. an 's' as in English. However, with the mixing of languages, the two designations are often swapped around.]

"Slang" is snake in Afrikaans, but the trail goes cold hereafter. Guess it has "taken the gap".

Read the glossary at the back of Deon Meyer novels for more fun!!

I chased down a favorite ejaculation from hunting videos, solved at the back of NYATI thus. "Vootsak (pronounced footsack) - A friendly greeting to strangers...(no, not really) Often yelled at the family dog for acts of theft or flatuation." (p. 382)

Heh, heh.

Barry

One of my oldest and best friends took our Zim slang to a new level, the Zimbos on this forum will recognise this (and him!) immediately. He had recently had the misfortune to wound and lose an elephant with a Spanish hunter, which back then was big news and got around the pre cell phone grapevine like lightning. I saw him in the Gwaai River Hotel Pub not long after this incident - the ensuing conversation went like this:

Me "Howzit man shame I heard you lost an elephant"

Him " Ja man I schemed the oke to hook it in the pip but he whacked it in the diff and it tally-hoed out the sub-region leaking oil"

Translation - he told the hunter to go for a brain shot but the guy went for a body shot (diff as in differential) and it ran far and fast and bled as it ran...

Maybe that's why Perth in Western Australia has such a huge population of Zims? They can come here and understand the language.

Just now...

Many here refer to phrases as "Zim speak" when in fact they are South African in origin and it includes the "native language phrases " known as Chilapalapa ( Rhodesia) or Fanagalo ( South Africa) .

The Rhodesians like to own chilapalapa as their language but it is not This was in fact not Rhodesian per se but South African in origin and more precisely originally from the Natal Colony under British rule in the 1800's.

One must not forget that Rhodesia's Matebele were originally Zulu , then Northern Sotho who fled the English and later the Boers and then settled in Rhodesia.

There were mainly two types of Fanagalo the first was "garden or farm " Fanagalo and the second was "mine Fanagalo".

The mines in South Africa was a huge employer of migrant labour from surrounding countries and this was a source of dissemination of this "language". The mines actually taught this language and there were dictionaries available.

As to usage much of this "speak" is also social class linked. We see today a general anglicization of Afrikaans and to a lesser extent a change in english in certain social strata so that there is now even a South African Oxford Dictionary.

Lorry - Truck

It can be very disconcerting when you are a boy and an adult says "Jump on the Lorry", and there is a girl named Lori standing beside you. (personal experience)

Eish, this is one of the better threads in a while.

to organise: verb, infinitive; in Amurkin: to organize, to arrange things to orderly and beneficial ends; in Zimspeak: (ostensibly) to arrange things to accomplish a desired goal; but in reality, to f*ck things up to a fare-thee-well, i.e., beyond all imagining; synonyms: to FUBAR; to render a calm repose into a SNAFU.

But all with good intentions, of course.

Oke - bloke, person, dude
Geezer - hot water heater

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Originally posted by DLS:
Eish, this is one of the better threads in a while.

But has f@(k-all to do with hunting.

One I could never get used to was Dad
and his: Pulled a boner=screwed up not JO!!

Then Tex came along with his: Turtle Hull
Then the UK: Kip=sleep

Fun read guys, keep it going,

George

quote:

Originally posted by Anton van der Spek:
Those words are unique to South Africa, Zim and Namibia.

Standard English used in everyday conversation.

Had a very pretty English friend who said I could feel free to come "knock her up". Translation: stop by and knock on her door. Lol

Crossing through deep water my Zimbo PH in Tanz once said "don't get your pegs wet" meaning keep your bullets dry.

"Flick us a Loose" can I have a cigarette?

"We'll make a plan" in my experience can mean anything from, I'm on it, to it ain't never going to happen and everything in between.

"Sorted" killed.

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Originally posted by Eagle Dad:
Had a very pretty English friend who said I could feel free to come "knock her up". Translation: stop by and knock on her door. Lol

How long did it take to pick your jaw off the floor and come up with a response?

How long did it take to get my jaw off the ground?

Well let's just say it was faster than calming my girl friend down.

Snapping your fingers and proclaiming D'WAAAA! Means to discharge a firearm. Or a good hit on a critter.

Guti...mist/drizzle

Kadee - village dog
Sorry - Say again, I didn't understand.

BH63

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Originally posted by surestrike:

"Flick us a Loose" can I have a cigarette?

That's better than a Brit friend of mine who said that he had to go find a "fag" (cigarette).

Two more

Eesh! - could mean just about anything depending on the context

no train smash - not a big deal

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Originally posted by subsailor74:
Two more

Eesh! - could mean just about anything depending on the context

no train smash - not a big deal

All the other Zim words every American member on AR is all fascinated by is common thru out the British English speaking world - U.K., Australia, India etc. I left Canada out.

Eesh is the only real weired one - its like Chinese with tones and knowledge of tones in context.

Mike

A few of my favorites:
"Peckish" for hungry.
"Switched on" for extremely wary.
"Pleasure" for you're welcome.
"I promise you..." just as a lead-in to a declaration.
"Beat box" for heart as in a place to shoot something.

Two more just came to me:

"Did you Win?" as in Were you successful?
And anything repeated two or three times, "Dick, grab your rifle; these tracks are fresh,fresh, FRESH!"

quote:

Pan--water hole- Dam

Pan = natural as natural
Dam =man made. Texan = tank, client "What is that above the tank?" Me to self, "Am I going blind, tank? Centurion, Oliphant, M1 Abrahms, Leopard?"
And "Over there," ten meters or 100 klms.

Many of the earlier postings on Zim speak are really terms used everyday in polite English society - loo etc.

To add a few more:

Chuli - frog or a Frenchman
Nyoka - a snake
Ngombi, or Mombi - cattle
A When-we - a Zim or Rhodesian who lives overseas but constantly barks back to "when we lived in Rhodesia....." normally with rose tinted glasses

[quote]no train smash - not a big deal[/quote

In New Zealand that comment would mean you had run out of tomato sauce