brakkie, noun
/ˈbraki/
- Forms:
- Also brakje.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, mongrel (applied in transferred derogatory sense to a person), brak see brak noun2 + diminutive suffix -ie.
a. A derogatory term for a person.
1883 O.E.A. Schreiner Story of Afr. Farm 291‘Tant’ Trana,’ I said, ‘you’ve married a Kaffir’s dog, a Hottentot’s “brakje”’.
1900 H. Nisbet For Right & England 159 (Pettman)Must they walk down the hills while the Rooibaatjes march up and make mince-meat of them? Have these brakjes not bayonets to plunge into us and turn our insides out?
b. A mongrel dog: brak noun2.
1906 E. London Dispatch 12 Apr. 7All they had to depend on was three small ‘brakkies’ (mongrel dogs) and their own kerries.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 85Brakje,..As employed in the Cape Colony this word is almost exactly equivalent to the English words, mongrel, cur.
A derogatory term for a person.
A mongrel dog: brak noun2.
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