pondokn.
/ˈpɒndɒk/, U.S. /ˈpɑnˌdɑk/, South African English /ˈpɒndɒk/ South African.
A makeshift shack or shanty made of wood, corrugated iron, or other improvised building materials.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1815 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. II. xli. 185 Near it stand six or eight pandokken [Ger. Pondokken], as they are called, a kind of huts made of reeds woven into a wooden frame, which are inhabited by the principal Bastard-Hottentots.
1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 218 The present dwelling..is a hovel, not much better than a Hottentot's bondhoek.
1843 J. C. Chase Cape Good Hope iii. 235 The Hottentots..planted themselves at the outskirts of the country villages in small pondhoks, or huts, partly covered with old rags, decayed hides, sugar bags, and occasionally a little thatch.
1852 Trial of Andries Botha 60 Was it a house or a pandok? It was a house.
1911 State (Cape Town) Dec. 612 In the morning we found that a dozen or more Hottentots had pitched their pondhocks close to the wagon.
1948 L. G. Green To River's End xiv. 161 I built myself a pondok in a lonely kloof and became tame.
1990 C. Laffeaty Far Forbidden Plains 88 As they approached the farmhouse she saw that it was little more than a pondok built of wattle-and-daub, roofed with zinc.
2001 C. Hope Heaven Forbid xv. 134 The backyard's a shanty town. There are hovels everywhere. Little pondoks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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