dronklap, noun

/ˈdrɔŋk lap/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, dronk drunk + lap rag.
colloquial
dronkie.
1959 J. Meiring Candle in Wind 7Only three little drinks today and he had called her a drunkard, a dronk-lap!
1975 S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 10Their father is also a dronklap who makes the A.C.F. outjies laugh by carrying a brandy cork around in his pocket and taking it for sniffs.
1977 Fugard & Devenish Guest 46Those bloody pills aren’t medicine. It’s drugs he’s taking. He’s worse than a dronklap.
1977 D. Muller Whitey 46‘So you’re a dronklap from East London,’ he said sourly. ‘Perhaps you’d better go back that way, mister. We have enough hoboes down here.’
1979 A. House in Staffrider Vol.2 No.1, 10Come from the library? Where’s your books? Only a bottle of wine. Dronklap, drunkard.
1980 A. Dangor in M. Mutloatse Forced Landing 165‘Hey you fokken dronklap!’ A man obviously disturbed by Samad’s raving stood at the railing of his balcony...‘A man can’t even get a decent night’s sleep here.’
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