nog, adverb

/nɔx/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, (as) yet, still, besides, further, more.
colloquial
1. rare. Still.
1961 T. Matshikiza Choc. for my Wife 89This one is nog worse, he is Gxambagxamba, ask them to say it.
1993 A.L. Haycock Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape) [visiting Rome] 8 June, 1993Nog Rome.
2. nogal.
1972 Springbok Radio 7 Mar.At the next stroke of the gong the time on Springbok Radio will be 7.30 nog.
1975 Sunday Times 27 July 20The first demo the capital has seen in many a long, conforming day. At the feet of Oom Paul, nog.
1977 Sunday Times 13 Nov. (Mag. Sect.) 3No matter what the basic outfit, whether slinky black silk or stiff brocade, the inevitable stole was there. Fringed, nog.
1978 Fair Lady 30 Aug. 5Marabel Morgan’s Total Woman is a diatribe on how to keep your marriage ‘happy’ by being a complete creep. In drag nog.
1981 Sunday Times 13 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 5You might use one credit card as a book mark (a literary thief, nog) but hardly the whole caboodle that was sent back.
1983 Sunday Times 4 Sept. (Lifestyle) 3Who’s been sleeping in J—’s bed? Who’s been bathing in her bath — and writing graffiti on her bathroom wall, nog?
3.
a. Usually in the phrase nog a, also nog ’n [Afrikaans, ’n a]. Another.
1971 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Here is nog — two, I think.
1972 R. Malan Ah Big Yaws 21Ah mist — gimmie nogga chorns! [I missed — give me nog a chance!]
c1985 S. Cromie in Eng. Academy Rev. Vol.3 19Me? — I go back to the Shebeen. Here Mister have nog a dop.
1989 Weekly Mail 20 Oct. 30Nog ’n film festival.
1990 Style May 55I grew up (pause) separately. I was a (nog a pause) fat kid, so I grew up being perceived as a fat person.
1993 J. Nel in Getaway Nov. 54Saunders Rocks is a small beach but well sheltered, with nog ’n tidal pool and large, dramatic rocks.
b. In the phr. nog ’n piep/ˈnɔxə pip/, also nog ’n peep [Afrikaans, piep peep, squeak], ‘another cheer’, customarily (and almost inevitably) said after three cheers have been given, calling for an additional one; figurative, some more.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 15 Oct. 135He also fixes it that this party gets to be held every year on the anniversary...It only breaks up well after midnight, with the traditional three cheers for oupa. ‘And nog ’n piep,’ Uncle Fanie reckons.
1985 J. Vigor in S.-Easter Aug.–Sept. 52 (column heading)Nog ’n Piep.
1985 P. Diamond in Style Dec. 6It was announced that the SAAA fund-raising auction raised R11 995. Clap-clap-hurrah-hurrah and nog ’n peep next year please.
1993 I. Vladislavić Folly 141A button sprang off the belly of an armchair and ricocheted, hip, hip, louder and louder, hurrah...Malgas tossed and turned with the tide en nog ’n piep.
Still.
Usually in the phrase nog a, also nog ’n [Afrikaans, ’n a].Another.
In the phr. nog ’n piep/ˈnɔxə pip/, also nog ’n peep [Afrikaans, piep peep, squeak],‘another cheer’, customarily (and almost inevitably) said after three cheers have been given, calling for an additional one; figurative, some more.
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Nkosi Sikelel’, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, noun phrasen. phr.nogal, adverbadv.
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