South African slang borrowed from Afrikaans meaning a woman or wife. Used across South Africa in casual conversation, 'vrou' (pronounced 'froh') has crossed language lines and appears in South African English, particularly among Afrikaans-speaking communities. It can refer to any woman in a general sense or specifically to one's wife or partner. Like many Afrikaans words that have filtered into South African English, it carries a warm, familiar, everyday quality.
He told us his vrou made the best koeksisters in the whole neighbourhood — and nobody argued.
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(South Africa) A woman.
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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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