nogal, adverb

/ˈnɔxal/
Forms:
Also nog al.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, ‘fairly, rather, quite’.
colloquial
‘What is more’, ‘into the bargain’, ‘on top of that’, used as an interpolation; nog sense 2.
1963 M. Kavanagh We Merry Peasants 18Two cocks and three hens, laying hens nogal, man.
1978 TV Times 19 Mar. 8Kojak can do it (sc. strike a match with one hand). With a lollipop in the other hand, nog al.
1978 P.-D. Uys Paradise Is Closing Down 142He phones up and..asks if he can pop round for a bath. Pop round! And nogal a bath, can you believe it!
1981 Fair Lady 9 Sept.The Lower Class mixes freely with its Afrikaans equivalent and borrows equally from its vocabulary. In contrast the Middle Class thinks it amusing to say ‘nogal’ at the end of a sentence now and then.
1981 Voice 18 Oct. 4That ‘Kaffertjie’ remark by Mr. Hennie V—! Nogal in Parliament by a man who is supposed to have the interests of Blacks at heart.
1983 Sunday Times 18 Sept. (Mag. Sect.) 3The world karate whiz who’s nogal a girl!
1983 O. Musi in City Press 6 Nov. 7It was a Wednesday nogal and he was really under the weather.
1987 ‘A. Amaphixiphixi’ in Frontline Mar. 38All one needed to do was to join the queue, hats off and no smiles and wham! The snap would be ready in three minutes and for free nogal.
1988 D. Christie Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Surely so detailed a specification of forms (noun clause in apposition nogal) is inconsistent with the communications approach?
1991 D. Kramer on M-Net TV 3 Apr.It was a great moment for me because I discovered that the man was nogal shorter than me.
1994 M. Mbatha in Sunday Times 9 Jan. 18I have a Master’s degree (from an American institution, nogal).
‘What is more’, ‘into the bargain’, ‘on top of that’, used as an interpolation; nog sense 2.
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19631994
nog, adverbadv.No Man’s Land, noun phrasen. phr.
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