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.
Dude, where did you get the weed we had last night? It was the bomb.
He is behaving like this because he smoked nyaope.
These nyaope boys would kill you for R5.
Don't forget your vuvuzela when we go to the stadium.
You also support Kaizer Chiefs? That's why you are so annoying.
1. I speak like this because I drink Woolworths water every morning.
2. Tanqueray is the Woolworths of Gins.
This one can't talk to women, akere he has gwababa.
"Leina la gago ke Thabo, akere?" >> Your name is Tshepo, isn't it?
1. Umntu wakho xa ebona mna, uthi sbwl. >> When your person sees me, s/he says sbwl.
2. Sbwl beer today.
3. Sbwl the coronavirus to just disappear.
On social media; is meant to have been created by “gay Xhosa men “ to hide their desire for a woman's man on social media.
1. Sbwl a good man.
2. Sbwl a man with a lot of money
Stomach in, chest out. Umkhaba must fall.