Definition of stompie in English:
stompie
nounPlural stompies ˈstɒmpi
South African informal 1A cigarette butt.
Example sentencesExamples
- I must point out that the place was spotless, I didn't see any overflowing dirt bins and papers or even stompies lying around.
- I must admit that stompies are the rubbish I find the most.
- There are even signs to ask smokers, when they go on to the pavement to smoke, not to drop their stompies on the street.
- Smokers are requested to use the red bins and not discard stompies in the natural bush due to the high risk of veld fires.
- It was somewhere around this time that someone (surely a mortal enemy from those dark years) dumped two cigarette stompies in my bottle of Mokador, something which was only brought to my attention when I offered some to her at the Taphuis an hour later.
- 1.1 A half-smoked cigarette kept for later use.
Example sentencesExamples
- I once burned the tip of my nose lighting up a stompie.
Phrases
informal Break into a conversation of which one has heard only the end.
Example sentencesExamples
- Not sure if I was picking up stompies but I thought I heard that there was something of the sort on market?
- I often wonder if people bother to read entire threads of this kind of thing, or just pick up stompies?
Origin
Afrikaans, diminutive of stomp 'stump'.