kak, adjective, , interjection, , and & noun

/kak/
Forms:
Also cac, kaak.
Origin:
Afrikaans, Dutch, Latin, ItalianShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch, excrement (from Latin cacare to defecate); quotation 1816 probably represents the Italian cacca excrement.
not in polite use
A. adjective Worthless, bad, horrible, untrue.
1971 Sunday Times 12 Sept. 4A former mayor of Naboomspruit once described Naboomspruit as a kak ou dorpie.
1981 Student Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure: they’re kak notes.
1982 Rhodeo (Rhodes Univ.) 6 Apr. 2This is a kak newspaper, what with your political raves and squatter problems and pop-music crits.
1983 J. Cronin Inside 15The pay’s kak, The prisoners give bek.
1984 A. Dangor in Staffrider Vol.6 No.1, 17Jurre, don’t start that kak story again, hoor.
1991 P. Slabolepszy Braait Laaities. 10How was that? Kak? If you think it was kak, you can say so. I have a very big heart.
1992 P.-D. Uys in South 27 Feb. 24‘All Eurocentric culture is kak!’ came from a group of huddled forms.
1993 J. Thomas in Weekly Mail 8 Apr. 26Seventies LPs, where every second track was kak.
B. interjection ‘Rubbish’, ‘nonsense’.
1973 J. Cope Alley Cat 83Doof! A stone lands and sends over him a fine spray of dust. The hornbill cackle of Jonkman’s laugh — ‘Kak!’ he jeers.
1977 L. Abrahams Celibacy of Felix Greenspan 44‘He’s the worst man in the world,’ said Felix. ‘Ag, kak, man!’ Willem growled.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 32Forsie: They’d let me through. Vince: Kak. No ways. Forget it.
C. noun Excrement, dung; usually figurative, equivalent to general English ‘shit’. Also attributive.
[1816 J. Mackrill Diary. 124I was given to understand..that cow dung alone was the Fuel of the Inhabitants...I..attacked my first Mutton Chop a la Caca with some hesitation, but was most agreeably disappointed.]
1975 J. McClure Snake (1981) 24Reporters? Those bastards can’t see what’s under their noses — and their values, so called, are all up to kak!
1975 J. McClure Snake (1981) 118That’s why I am worried to find you in this cold, dirty place, with dog kak and frikkies on the floor.
1975 M. Mutloatse in Bolt No.12, 20I do not care a kak about being moved every ten years. They may send me anywhere but employment I’ll find.
1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle 104‘You write kak,’ Willem said, lifting his glass. ‘I read what you put in the papers..and that’s what it was, pure kak.’
1977 M.P. Gwala Jol’iinkomo 64This chief who has let himself and his people into some confused Bantustan kaak.
1977 P.-D. Uys Paradise Is Closing Down 141Take your carrots or whatever..sis, what is all this kak?
1980 A. Dangor in M. Mutloatse Forced Landing 163Stop talking kak! Who are you?
1982 Fugard & Devenish Marigolds in Aug. 25The police come, and what happens then? We all land in the kak.
1985 Frontline Aug. 54You hear about guys who can never sleep again and that, but that’s kak.
1990 G. Slovo Ties of Blood 255Jesus, Jacob, you’re full of kak today.
Worthless, bad, horrible, untrue.
‘Rubbish’, ‘nonsense’.
Excrement, dung; usually figurative, equivalent to general English ‘shit’. Also attributive.
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