stuk, noun

/stək/
Plurals:
stukke/ˈstəkə/.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, piece, bit.
1. obsolete. slang. stukkie sense 1.
1946 J.B. Fisher in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 700Stuk, A fast girl; S. Africa.
2. A piece (of something); stukkie sense 2.
[1933 W. Macdonald Romance of Golden Rand 144Nourse put down his name with Jan Meyer for a block of thirty-four (stukke grond) claims.]
1971 A. Scholefield Young Masters‘Fish!’ the tramp said in disgust as he opened the padkos...‘Want a stuk, Paulie?’
1984 Frontline Feb. 27I’ve got this picture in my mind of some govt. ou coming round to this Nanabhai with a stuk of paper to tell him he must up and off from his little shop..to some plek the govt. figured was better for him.
1984 Frontline May 39Koos, what the govt ous say is that..this Bop is a separate country all of its own, being a stuk of the West Transvaal there by Rustenberg and a stuk of the North Transvaal there by Warmbaths and a stuk of the Free State there by Thabanchu and a few other stukke around and about.
1989 R. Sladen Informant, Cape Town, Western CapeThere’s somehow still nothing that compares with a good stuk of biltong.
A piece (of something); stukkie sense 2.
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strykgeld, nounn.stukkie, nounn.
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