kuier, verb

/ˈkeɪə//ˈkœɪə/
Forms:
Also kuyer.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch kuieren, to walk, stroll.
a. intransitive. To call, stop by, pay a visit.
1822 W.J. Burchell Trav. I. 329They soon began to feel themselves at home, as they were allowed to visit, or as they call it, kuyer, at the kraal.
1971 InformantFrikkie even sent his kids over there one day to kuier and ask when he would be selling his farm.
1978 J. Hobbs Darling Blossom 115We use up some of Sherman’s extra petrol on kuiering with other parties..where the beer never stops flowing and the braai’s never go out and..such funny Van der Merwe jokes.
1982 J. Krige in Staffrider Vol.5 No.2, 20We would sleep till four o’clock, have a quick cup of tea to wake up and then go kuier on the farms.
1985 D. Kramer in Cosmopolitan May 102When the Kriels settled down for a ‘little nap’ on Sundays after lunch, that’s when the rugby Romeo came to kuier.
1994 C.J. Driver In Water-Margins 17And so he came to visit, Kom kuier, in the language of childhood we still use.
1995 C. Lawrance in Natal Witness 3 Jan. 7I knew they hadn’t come to kuier (visit socially).
b. transitive. Rare, perhaps nonce. To visit (someone).
1994 C.J. Driver In Water-Margins 31Flood-lights Leap at tentative footfalls; to kom kuier Even the most patiently waiting friend What glass-topped walls would one climb.
To call, stop by, pay a visit.
To visit (someone).
Derivatives:
So kuier  noun [Afrikaans], a visit.
[1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 284Kuier,..In Cape Dutch this word means a visit, an outing.]
1971 M. Britz Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Margie came for just a short kuier on Saturday.
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