Blikkiesdorp, noun

/ˈbləkiːzˌdɔːp/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, blikkie ‘little tin’ (probably alluding to houses of corrugated iron, see blik-huis) + linking phoneme -s- + dorp town.
colloquial
1. The imaginary epitome of an insignificant, dreary, ‘one-horse’ town. See also Blikkies- and dorp sense a.
[1959 J. Meiring Candle in Wind 118‘Hello Blikkiesdorp,’ he called, and his little friends yelled with glee. ‘Hello, Smartie!’ Lena called back, with a good humour she did not feel.]
1962 J. Taylor ‘Hennie van Saracen’. (lyrics)One day outside Blikkiesdorp I got out of control, And I ended up in Bree Street, with my tank stuck up a pole.
1971 Fair Lady 6 Sept. 103Are you bored stiff by that routine job somewhere in Blikkiesdorp?
1972 Daily Dispatch 27 May 12 (cartoon)Just imagine, hey, if — instead of Blikkiesdorp — we land up in the Seychelles.
1974 Radio South Africa 20 June (Encounter)What about the people in the main urban areas? You can’t tell them to go and live in Blikkiesdorp.
1979 Sunday Times 9 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 2Around Blikkiesdorp or wherever..simple minds are not known for their deep insight into race relations.
1984 E.K. Moorcroft in Grocott’s Mail 10 Apr. 17I can see no merit at all in debating who said what about the Hon. Member of Blikkiesdorp’s buffalo-hunting trip when you are supposed to be debating the budget.
1990 J.G. Davis Land God Made in Anger 304The good old Afrikaner farmers and housewives of Blikkiesdorp — they’re just simple God-fearing folk.
1990 Weekend Argus 24 Nov. 1What was billed as ‘the most spectacular outdoor event seen in South Africa’ had as much spark as Guy Fawkes at Blikkiesdorp.
2. Any slum area or shanty-town; a run-down Black residential area; onderdorp, see dorp sense b.
1970 B.C. Maritz Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeThe poor whites live in Blikkiesdorp.
1977 Het Suid-Western 12 Sept.Mrs..N— and Mrs..B— live in Blikkiesdorp — the Bantu area of tin houses next to Rosemoor.
1978 Speak Vol.1 No.5, 55The location houses in which his pupils lived, the hungry children from Blikkiesdorp in his school.
1980 E. Joubert Long Journey of Poppie Nongena 14They lived in Blikkiesdorp, which was Upington’s shantytown or location. All kinds of people, except whites, were living there.
1990 Sunday Times 5 Aug. 10The poorer kids — who live in what is known to Krugersdorp locals as ‘Blikkiesdorp’ — gave most of their earnings to their parents.
The imaginary epitome of an insignificant, dreary, ‘one-horse’ town.
Any slum area or shanty-town; a run-down Black residential area; onderdorp, see dorp sense b.
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Blikkies-, combining formcomb. formBlikoor, nounn.
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