stoep
/stuːp
/noun South African
A veranda in front of a house.A unique feature are the pillars on the front stoep: they are upside down cannon barrels, painted white....
- In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by.
- Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
Origin
Afrikaans, from Dutch; related to step.
Rhymes
- laughing hyena
- laughing jackass
- laughingly
- laughing matter
- laughing muscle
- laughing owl
- laughing post
- laughing stock
- laughing-thrush
- laugh in someone's face
- laughless
- laugh like a drain
- Laughlin
- laugh line
- laugh-maker
- laugh meter
- laugh-o-meter
- laughometer
- laugh oneself silly (or sick)
- laugh one's head off
- laugh on the other side of one's face (or out of the other side of one's mouth)
- laugh-out-loud
- laugh riot
- laughsome
- laugh someone/thing out of court