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bakgat

bakgat adjective: great, good, fine, excellent.

Adjective

bakgat (comparative more bakgat, superlative most bakgat)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Great, good, fine, excellent.
    • "Your car was pinking and I fixed it." "Bakgat".
    • 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".2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018

Forms of bakgat

comparativemore bakgat
superlativemost bakgat

Origin of bakgat

From Afrikaans bak (“to bake, roast”) + gat (“bum”).

Questions about bakgat

What does bakgat mean?
Bakgat means great, good, fine, excellent.
What part of speech is bakgat?
Bakgat is an adjective.

Words near bakgat in the dictionary

  1. bakfiets
  2. bakfietsen
  3. bakfietses
  4. Bakgalagadi
  5. Bakgalagalis
  6. bakgat
  7. Bakhchisarai
  8. Bakhchisaraitsev
  9. bakhchisaraitsevite
  10. Bakhchisaray
  11. Bakhchysarai

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