smokkie, noun

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EnglishShow more Formed on smokkelhuis + English (informal) noun-forming suffix -ie.
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smokkelhuis.
1977 D. Muller Whitey 21You seem to be suffering, ou Whitey...Maggy Aap’s piss, I suppose. That’s a bad smokkie. They never wash their bottles.
1990 Weekend Argus 29 Sept. 3Death is etched on the face of the thin adolescent fingering the ‘lemmetjie’ (blade) in his pocket. It’s scrawled across the gang that has swaggered out of the ‘smokkie’ (shebeen).
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