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noun
A small bowl or container, sometimes with a cover such as a Tupperware container.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Namibia, South-Africa
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Namibia, South-Africa
Topics: road, transport
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History
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).
Across languages
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