‖auk, interjection
- Forms:
- Also auck, aug.
- Origin:
- IsiZulu, isiXhosaShow more From isiZulu and isiXhosa awu-ke, awu (see au) + emphatic enclitic formative -ke.
Among isiXhosa- and isiZulu-speakers: hau.
1907 J.P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld 403He would..give a click of disgust, a quick shake of the head, and say: ‘Aug! Ang-a-funa!’ (‘I do not desire it!’)
[1967 L. Van der Post in C.M. Booysen Tales of S. Afr. 102‘Auck! Auck!’ Umtumwa exclaimed in Sindakwena. ‘He goes the long way to the great sleep.’]
hau.
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