Dictionary

bakkie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbʌ-/ (General-American, General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)
• (South-Africa) audio
• /ˈbæki/ (General-American, General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (Namibia, South-Africa) A small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container.
   • [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:
   • 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. (Namibia, South-Africa) A 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.

Forms

Translations (2)

af bakkie (small pick-up truck or ute) · de Bakkie (small pick-up truck or ute)