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lecker

lecker is the alternative form of lekker.

Meaning of lekker

Adjective

lekker (comparative more lekker, superlative most lekker)

  1. (South Africa) Tasty, nice, fun, great.
    • There were 2 000 rounds of ammo to fire between us four loadies. We sat there for hours and took our potshots. It was kiff; the R5 was a lekker thing.2010, Cameron Blake, From Soldier to Civvy: Reflections on National Service
  2. (South Africa) Good in a generic sense, worthy, functional.
    • The other men ask why he's crying, when he's got such a lekker car. The guy shakes his head and says, "I just saw my wife, and she was driving a skateboard."1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's lekker, thick South African joke book, page 164

Forms of lecker

comparativemore lecker
superlativemost lecker

Questions about lecker

What is lecker the alternative form of?
Lecker is the alternative form of lekker.

Words near lecker in the dictionary

  1. lecithotrophy
  2. lecithotropic
  3. lecitotrophic
  4. lecitotrophy
  5. Leck
  6. lecker
  7. Leckey
  8. Leckeys
  9. Leckhampstead
  10. Leckhampton
  11. Leckhampton with Warden Hill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lecker (page history and authors); lekker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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