单词 | lekker |
释义 | lekkeradj. South African colloquial. Pleasant, sweet, nice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > pleasing to the senses lithec888 fairOE softOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 kindlya1382 favourablea1398 kinda1398 sugared1426 feelsomea1450 agreeablec1450 comfortablec1460 favourousc1485 grateful1553 sugar candy1575 lickerish1595 savouring1595 maumy1728 tasty1796 lekker1900 1900 A. Carter Let. 8 Feb. (MS.) On Monday these left and in moving round the mountain was ‘verneuked’ as Hannes said ‘lekker’. 1926 E. Lewis Mantis ii. viii. 123 To Mr Dan Hugo nothing tasted so lekker as a good cup of coffee at that hour. 1953 F. Robb Sea Hunters viii. 137 ‘Fish soup and baked fish to follow. Lekker!’ Olley drooled. 1961 Personality (Durban) 16 May 27 It's a lekker language. 1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands vii. 82 Charl Pauw..had the thickest of South African accents... ‘But the place is lekker, I tell you, its lekker.’ 1970 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 28 Feb. 7/4 Some South African English colloquialisms, again mainly of Afrikaans origin, he regards as downright ‘barbarisms’, such as..lekker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1900 |
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