bedonnerd, adjective

/bəˈdɔnə(r)t/
Forms:
Also bedonderd, bedonnered.
Origin:
Afrikaans.
slang
Wilfully obstinate, contrary; out of temper; crazy; beneukt.
1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 12Sugar’s not enough man. I want some real sweetness. Then you can be as bedonnerd as you like.
1974 Drum 8 Apr. 7Some people think I’m bedonderd when I say I want to be ruled by a government of Africans. But they just don’t blerrie understand.
1978 P.-D. Uys in Theatre One 149Anna: Down? Do I look down? Molly: Sort of bedonnerd, yes.
1987 R. Sargeant in Grocott’s Mail 30 Apr. 2It’s a crazy play — I think the best word to describe it is that marvellous Afrikaans word ‘bedonnered’.
[1990 R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 2‘These people,’ he said in a strong Platteland Afrikaans, ‘are mad!’ — He used the colloquial word, bedonderd. — ‘They all want to be coloured!’]
Wilfully obstinate, contrary; out of temper; crazy; beneukt.
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becreeping, verbal nounvbl n.BEE, nounn.
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