een poets bakken
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From poets. Literally, “to bake a joke/prank”. The form een pots bakken is older, but both date to the eighteenth century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (intransitive, often with an indirect object) to play a joke (on) [from 18th c.]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of een poets bakken: see bakken.
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: 'n poets bak