snoep, adjective

/snʊp//snup/
Forms:
Also shnoep.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, greedy, grasping (from Dutch snoepen to eat sweets stealthily, to enjoy forbidden things in secret).
colloquial
Stingy, miserly, mean.
1966 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)He’s so horribly snoep that he makes two 35c bottles of wine do a dinner party for twelve.
1970 E. Mundell Informant, Pearston, Eastern CapeDon’t be so snoep with your sweets (greedy, selfish).
1971 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Oh! Here it is, I couldn’t find it. Penny’s so snoep with the paper — she’s written it on the back!
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 9 July 95Try and pick up some free samples..only the make-up folks is getting hang of a snoep like everybody else these days.
1975 S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 55‘Look, I’ve only got a few cartridges with me and I need them.’ ‘Jesus, how snoep can you get!’
1977 Darling 18 July 123Maybe its on account of I’m born snoep..but I only gotta see those big red Sale signs outside a shop and I go into orbit.
1977 S. Roberts in E. Pereira Contemp. S. Afr. Plays 244My God, but I hate a snoep person!
Stingy, miserly, mean.
Derivatives:
So snoep  noun, a stingy person.
1994 L. Lünsche Informant, Johannesburg, GautengI’m such a shnoep. I don’t want to dip into my savings to buy the computer.
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snoep, n.
snoek, verb intransitivev.Snor City, noun phrasen. phr.
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