smiley, noun
- Forms:
- Also smilie.
- Origin:
- Probably so called because of the appearance of the mouth on the cooked head.
slang
Especially in township English: the head of a sheep or goat (or less often of a cow), cleaned, sometimes halved, and stewed or grilled with or without the brain and tongue; skop noun2.
1990 J. Cullum in Weekend Post 18 Aug. 7At the entrance to Njoli square, half a stewed goat’s head (known as a ‘Smiley’) costs R2,50.
1994 G. Jezi Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)You put the whole smiley on a drievoet and burn off all the hair, you wash it with a stone and hot water until it’s clean, clean. You take an axe and chop it in half to get the brain and the tongue out. Then you cook the smiley and the tongue in a pot for about three hours.
Especially in township English: the head of a sheep or goat (or less often of a cow), cleaned, sometimes halved, and stewed or grilled with or without the brain and tongue; skop noun2.
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