bollemakiesie, adverb and & noun
- Forms:
- Show more Also bolermakissie, bollamakiesie, bolmakiesie.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, somersault; bolle from Dutch bol (see bolla) + makiesie origin unknown.
colloquial
A. adverb figurative Head over heels, somersaulting.
c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) 102Van K: He’s gone Home. Sailed on the mailboat. Bunked. Lady M: Bunked? Van K: Yes and I’m bunkered. Stymied. Off-side. Bolermakissie.
1991 D. Kramer on M-Net TV 3 Apr.It went bollamakiesie over the telephone wires.
B. noun A somersault. Also figurative.
1970 H.M. Musmeci Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeLook at the children turning bolmakiesies on the lawn.
1993 Daily News 14 Jan. 12If the CP did become involved in planning talks and then multi-party negotiations, it would be a very public admission that it was wrong. ‘The price of this bollemakiesie is: “Koos, you were right. So were you, Koos...So were you Andries, Chris, [etc.]” That means a helluva climb-down,’ said Mr van der Merwe.
Head over heels, somersaulting.
A somersault. Also figurative.
- Derivatives:
- Hence (nonce) bollemakies intransitive verb, to turn somersaults.1982 J. Krige in Staffrider Vol.5 No.2, 20They would play all over the farm whether it was bollemakissing from the rafters into the haystack or mucking about in the cowsheds.
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