‖seepkissie, noun
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, seep soap + kis box, case + diminutive suffix -ie.
historical
A soap-box (used in an Anglo-Boer War concentration camp as a coffin for a small child). See also concentration camp.
1971 Daily Dispatch 20 May 9Perhaps the key symbol in these people’s minds was the tragic ‘seepkissie’ or small soapbox in which children who died in the concentration camps were buried.
1976 S. Gray in Quarry ’76 122It was your world took me over there was Oom Gert and the seepkissie and even the starved babies and hanging young patriots.
A soap-box (used in an Anglo-Boer War concentration camp as a coffin for a small child).
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