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skyf

skyf noun: a cigarette.

Noun

skyf (plural skyfs)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A cigarette.
    • Laduma rolls himself a skyf. It's cheap Swazi and rakes the lungs, but it's skyf nonetheless.2004, A. K. Thembeka, Laduma, page 11
    • Vendors walk up and down the line of cars selling warm cold-drinks and chips, single skyfs or packs of Remington Gold.2010, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City, page 307

Verb

skyf (third-person singular simple present skyfs, present participle skyfing, simple past and past participle skyfed)

  1. (South Africa, slang) To smoke cigarettes.
    • Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol. Skyfing. They skyfed at the beach, in the park, down the alley, outside parties and in speeding cars.2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer

Forms of skyf

Noun
pluralskyfs
Verb
third-person singular presentskyfs
present participleskyfing
past participleskyfed
pastskyfed

Origin of skyf

From Afrikaans skyf (“a slice; disk”), from Dutch schijf, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ. Doublet of shive and skive.

Questions about skyf

What does skyf mean?
Skyf means a cigarette.
What part of speech is skyf?
Skyf can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of skyf?
The plural of skyf is skyfs.

Words near skyf in the dictionary

  1. skyed
  2. Skyers
  3. skyes
  4. skyey
  5. skyeyest
  6. skyf
  7. skyfall
  8. skyfalls
  9. skyfaring
  10. skyfarm
  11. skyfarming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skyf (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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