South African slang for a fool, idiot, or hopeless incompetent — someone who can't seem to get anything right. Used across multiple South African language communities as a casual, colorful insult that's more exasperated than truly malicious. It's the word you mutter when someone does something spectacularly dumb, and it carries the particular flavor of South African English slang that mixes affection and frustration freely.
He locked his keys inside the car twice in one week — what a mompara.
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(South Africa) A fool.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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