bergie
(South Africa) A homeless person in Cape Town.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(South Africa) A homeless person in Cape Town.
The man joined a group of bergies sleeping near the police station and pretended to be one of them when confronted by the rangers.
Origin: Borrowed from , from berg. So called because they used to live in the mountains. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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“#kirby At the same year of Kirby star allies released, i used to constantly gave a goofy nicknamed Flamberge: Budgie, derive from me mutated half of her name: -berge into budgie, well instead of Bergie. So i been calling her a birb the whole time since then till this current day.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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