‖snaaks, adjective

/snɑːks/
Forms:
Also (attributive only) snaakse /ˈsnɑːksə/.
Origin:
Afrikaans.
colloquial
Odd, peculiar.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 454Snaaks,..Droll, strange, peculiar.
1921 W.C. Scully Harrow 96‘Snaakse kêrel,’..would be the comment of his hearers.
1973 M. Philip Caravan Caravel 64Yesterday, when it was nearly dark, I knew there was something snaaks about the bushes.
1984 ‘Dan’ in Frontline Feb. 24Man, these Capey ouens are very snaaks. They’re otherwise.
1984 ‘Dan’ in Frontline 27All of a sudden I got this like snaakse lump in my throat.
1984 Frontline May 38They’ve made it (sc. free enterprise) into a sort of religion and even put it into the constitution...But that is..snaaks, since the govt ous were quite a bunch of socialists back in the olden days when P.W. Botha still had lots of hair.
1984 ‘Dan’ in Frontline 39Koos you can pick up this Bop radio sommer easily, even by accident, and when you do it sounds very snaaks.
Odd, peculiar.
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smousing, verbal nounvbl n.snaphaan, nounn.
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