bakkie

ˈbæki

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#1·14h ago

A small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container.

The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet.

Origin: [[File:Snoek Seller.JPG|thumb|A bakkie (sense 2) being used by an informal street vendor in South Africa to sell snoek (a type of fish).]] Borrowed from , and then either: * from Northern (informal), from , from bak (see further at that entry) + -je; or * from (from ; see above) + -ie. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·14h ago

(road transport) A small pick-up truck or ute, generally open and sometimes fitted with a removable canopy, but distinct from an enclosed van and a large truck.

[S]he passed around a bakkie of home-made chocolate biscuits to all the girls.

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