skyf, noun
/skeɪf/
- Forms:
- Also skayf, skuif.
- Plurals:
- usually skyfs, occasionally skuiwe, skywe /ˈskeɪvə/.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Adaptation of Afrikaans skuif a pull on a pipe, a puff of smoke, from Dutch schuiven to smoke.
slang
a. zol noun sense 1 a. b. zol noun sense 3. Also dimunitive form skyfie [see -ie].
1946 C.P. Wittstock in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 399Dagga..: laughing skuif, boom, etc.
1967 Drum 28 Aug. 7This roker did not touch liquor at all. What did he get out of smoking dagga? ‘It kept me calm and even-tempered...I couldn’t go to sleep at night unless I had a good few skuifs...If I didn’t smoke it, I would fight too much. But when I caught a skuif, I didn’t feel like fighting.’
1974 Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.5 No.1, 10Tobacco is snout...Skuif is a cigarette — sometimes also laugh, spill or zoll. Most skuiwe are hand-rolled from pipe-snout.
1974 Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.5 No.1, 11To the ordinary smoker, a stop..means sufficient snout to roll a skuif.
1977 Family Radio & TV 23 Jan. 19Cigarettes are an extravagance far beyond their almost non-existent means, so they buy cheap pipe-tobacco and roll it in newspaper to make skyfs.
1979 Cape Times 1 Dec. 11Smoking dagga green is mostly for the beginner and soon he becomes addicted to smoking his ‘skuif’ or ‘pil’ white. (The term white indicates that mandrax tablets ground to a fine white powder have been sprinkled onto the smoker’s green dagga.)
1982 J. Allan in Sunday Times 6 June (Mag. Sect.)The taxi-driver oke (he’s got one of those custom-bent skyfs like hanging from his lower lip) is taking his cherrie..for a ‘hoddog’ and chips.
1985 H. Prendini in Style Oct. 39Student slang..tends to be more entertaining and imaginative and less deliberately vulgar than southern suburbs jol talk. Students..‘swaai a zephyr’, or get ‘goofed’ on a ‘skyf’ (smoke dagga) before..‘zonking out’ (going to sleep).
1990 C. Leonard in Weekly Mail 2 Nov. 29One of them, a big ‘oke’ with a moustache, cap, bright orange string vest and lime green bermudas, drags deeply on a dagga cigarette...His friend, giggling, takes the ‘skyf’ and follows his example.
zolnoun1 a.
zolnoun3. Also dimunitive form skyfiesee -ie.
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