Blikkies-, combining form
/ˈbləkiːz/
- Origin:
- By analogy with Blikkiesdorp.
colloquial
A pejorative element in fictitious place names, meaning ‘one-horse’, insignificant, or ‘dreary’.
1982 Sunday Times 18 Apr. (Mag. Sect.) 1A holiday on the cheap..only if Mum is agreeable to doing all the work she..does at home on a camping site in Blikkiesbaai.
1982 E. Platter in Fair Lady 3 Nov. 344‘Interesting, unusual, striking’..can tide you over anything from the top growths to a plonk de plonk from the Overblikkiesberg Co-operative.
A pejorative element in fictitious place names, meaning ‘one-horse’, insignificant, or ‘dreary’.
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