bakgat
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Afrikaans bak (“to bake, roast”) + gat (“bum”).
Adjective
[edit]bakgat (comparative more bakgat, superlative most bakgat)
- (South Africa, slang) Great, good, fine, excellent.
- "Your car was pinking and I fixed it." "Bakgat".
- 2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online[1], archived from the original on 29 March 2018:
- A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English".
Usage notes
[edit]It is often a positive response to a statement made by somebody else.