Meanings
comparative more bakgat · superlative most bakgat
- South AfricaslangGreat, good, fine, excellent.
"Your car was pinking and I fixed it." "Bakgat".
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A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English".
2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018
Origin
- Afrikaansbak“to bake, roast”
- Englishbakgat
From Afrikaans bak (“to bake, roast”) + gat (“bum”).
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bakgat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakgat
“bakgat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakgat. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bakgat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakgat.
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