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voertsek

/ˈfʊɹtsɑk/

voertsek is the alternative form of voetsek.

Meaning of voetsek

Interjection

  1. (South Africa) get lost! go away! An exclamation of dismissal or rejection.
    • One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him. "He called me a kaffir and other insulting names," Arthur says with a laugh. "As we left he screamed at us to 'voetsek'. I thought it was funny enough to make a good song."1996, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 17

Questions about voertsek

What is voertsek the alternative form of?
Voertsek is the alternative form of voetsek.
How do you pronounce voertsek?
Voertsek is pronounced /ˈfʊɹtsɑk/.

Words near voertsek in the dictionary

  1. Voelz
  2. Voelzes
  3. voenkomat
  4. Voerendaal
  5. Voertigern
  6. voertsek
  7. voes
  8. voetganger
  9. voetgangers
  10. Voetian
  11. Voetianism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voertsek (page history and authors); voetsek (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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