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bakkie, n. S. Afr.
Brit. |ˈbaki|, U.S. |ˈbæki|, S. Afr. |ˈbæki|
Forms: 18 bakje, 19– bakkie
[‹ Afrikaans bakkie small container, small van or pick-up truck > n.2) + -ie, diminutive suffix.]
1. A basin or bowl; (more generally) any container or receptacle.
1893Cape Illustr. Mag. No. 6. 217 ‘Water? Why don't you carry a bottle of it with you?’ She took up a bakje or mug, and..set off to the duck pond. 1967J. Hobbs in New S. Afr. Writing No. 4. 68 Oom Franz's eldest..took to joining Klein Hannes behind the fowl-hok at five to twelve, carrying a bakkie of laying mash as an excuse. 1991Settler No. 2. 11 Strictly speaking, bakkie means a container but through extension, it has come to mean any kind of receptacle, from a baking-tin to a trough.
2. A small van or pick-up truck.
1968Farmer's Weekly 3 Jan. 98 (advt.) Bakkies! Bakkies! Bakkies! All makes and sizes. 1980M. Tholo in C. Hermer Diary Maria Tholo 81 It was a red van, a bakkie, with a canopy on top. 1989Sunday Times (S. Afr.) 26 Feb. (Mag. section) 36 The bakkie is synonymous with the local farmer out on his plaas,..bags of mealies and his workers in the back. 2004H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! iv. 36 Max introduces himself..and loads us into his decrepit bakkie which drags its rear off-side mudguard and bumper. |