pondokkie, noun

/pɔnˈdɔki//pɒnˈdɒki/
Forms:
pandokkie, pantokkieShow more Also pandokkie, pantokkie, pondakkie, pondockie, pondokie.
Origin:
pondok + -ie.
pondok. Also attributive, and figurative, and combination. pondokkie-dweller.
1862 ‘A Lady’ Life at Cape (1963) 71To watch a black fellow smoking at the door of his pondockie is to envy him the supreme nonchalance with which he treats time, duty and space.
1899 E. Prov. Herald 4 Nov. (Pettman)The poor burghers are living in pandokkies on the outskirts of the town.
1936 C. Birkby Thirstland Treks 118I saw children dying of typhus fever because their parents in the pondokkie huts, lacking water, were living in filth.
1950 D. Reed Somewhere S. of Suez 163A pondokkie is a shack built of pinewood, packing, flattened barrels, tin, or any available scraps of material.
1957 B. O’Keefe Gold without Glitter 28He told Scheepers to wait at the tent and went over to the grass pondokkies where the native loaders slept.
1960 J. Cope Tame Ox 84Thousands of shanties and pondokkies grew overnight with the swiftness of a malignant fungus in the bush.
1960 J. Cope Tame Ox 86The wood-hawker himself was slouched asleep against his pondokkie wall.
1964 G. Gordon Four People 118Some of the pondokkies, or shanties, consisted of no more than poles pointed drunkenly skywards and linked with sacking and ill-assorted scraps of wood and iron, small gaps being stuffed with cardboard and paper.
1966 L.G. Berger Where’s Madam 1Couldn’t decide whether to buy a ‘character’ home at enormous expense, or a pondokkie to hell and gone from town.
1973 Cape Times 10 May 3More than 50 pondokkie-dwellers sat and stood around disconsolately yesterday...The pondokkie people were being evicted.
1975 Friend 14 Mar. 5These homelands, or more accurately, independent pondokkies, are going to turn into a time bomb poised to explode over a racialistic South Africa.
1976 E. Prov. Herald 19 Aug. 3He told the people..he would continue to work for the rejection of independence to the homeland. ‘I see the Transkei as nothing but a “pondokkie” after October 26’ he said.
1983 E. Prov. Herald 2 JuneI bought a run-down pondokkie and Chelseafied it — it’s my anchorage.
1987 Scope 9 Oct. 65 (caption)Barbra Streisand lives in this quaint little pondokkie.
1983 Fair Lady 16 Nov. 167The years have passed and people find themselves still jampacked in the same rotting pondokkies, still without waterborne sewage and electricity.
1985 J. Makunga in Staffrider Vol.6 No.2, 35Bedraggled pondokkies, some made of flattened-out paraffin tins, others of old plywood and boards. For the most part they were sack-built by those luckless enough not to have found something better to build with.
1990 R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 75The other problem — the squatters, who have set up pondokkies or tin shacks on vacant land.
pondok. Also attributive, and figurative, and combination. pondokkie-dweller.
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