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vrot

vrot adjective: rotten.

Adjective

vrot (comparative more vrot, superlative most vrot)

  1. (South Africa) rotten
    • The mycologist Raper found and isolated one of the very best strains of penicillin-producing fungus happily growing on a vrot spanspek at his local greengrocer[…]1979, South African journal of science, volumes 75-76, page 399
    • The leader who was a bit older than the others - his two front teeth were missing - kicked her legs when she caught him and he said she was a vrot banana also because she was a girl also.1994, Ella Mary Macphail, Ugogo and other stories from South Africa, page 33

Forms of vrot

comparativemore vrot
superlativemost vrot

Origin of vrot

Borrowed from Afrikaans vrot (“rotten”).

Questions about vrot

What does vrot mean?
Vrot means rotten.
What part of speech is vrot?
Vrot is an adjective.

Words near vrot in the dictionary

  1. Vroomans
  2. vroomed
  3. vrooming
  4. vrooms
  5. vros
  6. vrot
  7. vrou
  8. vrous
  9. vrouw
  10. vrouwen
  11. vrouws

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