kyk weer, noun phrase

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, kyk look + weer again.
a. A replay of a television sequence, usually in slow motion. b. A reappraisal.
1983 K. Shippey in Style MayJune 19Those ‘kyk weers’ on television lost their enchantment; we’d seen Transvaal and Western Province so often on the screen that it was a bit like watching an old movie.
1985 Vula Oct. 36Having looked at Via Afrika’s music, maybe we should take a kyk-weer at their lyrics.
1987 D. Carte in Sunday Times 15 Nov. (Business Sect.) 1The stadium will also soon have another huge TV screen for ‘kyk-weers’.
1988 E. Prov. Herald 12 Dec. 1It was far from funny at the time, but the whole thing would look hilarious in a ‘Kyk Weer,’ he said laughing.
1989 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Oh Ailsa, you’ll have to have a kykweer.
A replay of a television sequence, usually in slow motion.
A reappraisal.
Derivatives:
Hence kyk weer  intransitive verbal phrase, to look again.
1984 J. Allan in Sunday Times 23 Sept. 26Andy will cause you to ‘Kyk Weer’ and coo with delight at his Renaissance revisited.
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