‖skat, skattie, noun

/skat(i)/
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AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans (see also -ie).
‘Darling’, ‘beloved’, ‘treasure’: a term of endearment.
c1964 M. Jabour in New S. Afr. Writing 21You listen to Ouma, skat. Ouma won’t tell you wrong.
1967 J. Hobbs in New S. Afr. Writing IV. 65He said to Magdalena, his wife, ‘Skat,’ he said, ‘we will call it Scheepersdal, and so will our sons after us and our grandsons.’
1974 Daily Dispatch 28 May 22 (cartoon)No braaivleis, skat.
1985 Cape Times 3 Aug. (cartoon)Don’t worry, Skattie, Bapetikosweti will stick with you through thick and thin.
1989 J. Lecoat in Cosmopolitan Apr. 34One summer’s day, her father came home early from work. ‘I’ve found you a drum skattie,’ he told her. ‘You come down and see.’
1990 C. Leonard in Weekly Mail 2 Nov. 29‘Yes, I’ll have another brandy and Coke, skattie,’ Bennie’s wife says.
1990 G. Silber in Sunday Times 16 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 24A no-holds-barred biography of the life and times of Evita Bezuidenhout, South Africa’s Sacred Cow and Ambassadress to Bapetikosweti: what a wonderful idea, skatties!
1990 G. Nevill in Sunday Times 30 Dec. 1Don’t be pessimistic, skatties.
‘Darling’, ‘beloved’, ‘treasure’: a term of endearment.
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skande, interjectionint. & nounn.skate, nounn.
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