South Africa Slang Dictionary
South African slang is a rich, multilingual mix that borrows freely from the country's eleven official languages - isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho and more - plus street languages like tsotsitaal and Sepitori. It's the language of the townships, the taxi rank, kwaito and amapiano, and everyday Mzansi life from Joburg to Cape Town to Durban. Words like eish, howzit, lekker, sharp sharp and yebo are woven into how South Africans speak every day. Explore the community-built dictionary of South African slang below - and add the words you know.
The students write chuchubaby's during their exams.
Or who wrote the chuchubaby on my car.
I'm praying for everyone who tries to steal my lover to go kwikhaya lakhe lokugqibela
I had to give them my phone, one of them ebephethe intshiza.
A lot of people misspell it as nqayi.
Soze ndiphinde ndichebe inkqayi.
When one is craving a cigarette, we say unqanqathekile, or s/he will say ndinqanqathekile.
The way ndinqanqatheke ngayo you'd swear I didn't just smoke now.
Ey wena the way you like to town, you will get sick.
The only thing I want now yi gawula.
If I get caught by traffic cops, ndiyanyoba and it all goes well.
What a goal... Laduuuuuuumaaaa!!!