gedaan, adjective
- Forms:
- Also gedan.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch), finished, exhausted.
2. obsolete. klaar adjective sense 1.
1915 D. Fairbridge Torch Bearer 39A short, stout, dark-haired man of about forty-five came into the room. ‘Gedaan, Mevrouw Neethling,’ Then he stood in an attitude of expectation.
Exhausted; ‘done for’.
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