bakkie

bak·kie
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US, General South African, UK/ˈbæki/US, General South African, UK/ˈbʌ-/

noun

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

OriginAfrikaans bakkie ← Dutch bakkie →
RareFirst used late 19th c.Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounbakkie (plural bakkies)

plural bakkies

  1. NamibiaSouth AfricaA small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container.First known use late 19th c.

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

    2007, Bree O’Mara, Home Affairs, Johannesburg, Gauteng: 30°South Publishers, →ISBN, page 148
    1 more example

    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.

    1901 October 11, F. V. Corbett, “Report on Irrigation in Natal”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 16, Pietermaritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, paragraph 21, page 492, column 2
  2. NamibiaSouth AfricaroadA 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.First known use mid 20th c.

Origin

  1. Dutchbak
  2. Afrikaansbak“container; part of a vehicle for carrying loads”
  3. Dutchbakje“container; drinking vessel; (archaic) carriage for passengers”
  4. Dutchbakkie
  5. Afrikaansbakkie
  6. Englishbakkie

Borrowed from Afrikaans bakkie, and then either: * from Northern Dutch bakkie (informal), from Dutch bakje (“container; drinking vessel; (archaic) carriage for passengers”), from bak (“container; drinking vessel; vehicle; part of a vehicle for carrying loads; part of a carriage for carrying passengers”) (see further at that entry) + -je (diminutive suffix); or * from Afrikaans bak (“container; part of a vehicle for carrying loads”) (from Dutch bak; see above) + -ie (diminutive suffix).

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Translations

Afrikaans bakkie
  • bakkiesmall pick-up truck or ute
German Bakkie
  • Bakkiesmall pick-up truck or ute
Polish bakkie, bakkie
  • bakkiesmall bowl or container
  • bakkiesmall pick-up truck or ute

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with bakkie

KentuckyluckybukkakeJackiewackyMackieunluckyMackeytackybuckyduckylackeyyuckyJackipluckyhackymuckymackyrakibaccybrachybruckybullpuckyclucky
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Sounds the same

baccy
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APA

bakkie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakkie

MLA

“bakkie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakkie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bakkie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bakkie.

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