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bliksem

bliksem noun: bastard, arsehole, sod.

Noun

bliksem (plural bliksems)

  1. (South Africa, colloquial) bastard, arsehole, sod.

Verb

bliksem (third-person singular simple present bliksems, present participle blikseming or bliksemming, simple past and past participle bliksemed or bliksemmed)

  1. (South Africa, colloquial, transitive) To beat up.
    • I was repeatedly sent to the headmaster's office for blikseming someone for wronging another kid.2022, Peter Lindenberg, Flat Out and Fearless

Forms of bliksem

Noun
pluralbliksems
Verb
third-person singular presentbliksems
present participleblikseming
present participlebliksemming
past participlebliksemed
pastbliksemed
past participlebliksemmed
pastbliksemmed

Origin of bliksem

Borrowed from Afrikaans bliksem.

Questions about bliksem

What does bliksem mean?
Bliksem means bastard, arsehole, sod.
What part of speech is bliksem?
Bliksem can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of bliksem?
The plural of bliksem is bliksems.

Words near bliksem in the dictionary

  1. blike
  2. bliked
  3. blikes
  4. bliking
  5. bliks
  6. bliksem
  7. bliksemed
  8. blikseming
  9. bliksemmed
  10. bliksemming
  11. bliksems

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