skyf

Afrikaans

skyf (plural skyfs)

1. (South Africa, slang) A cigarette.
   • 2004, A. K. Thembeka, Laduma, page 11:

     Laduma rolls himself a skyf. It's cheap Swazi and rakes the lungs, but it's skyf nonetheless.

   • 2010, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City, page 307:

     Vendors walk up and down the line of cars selling warm cold-drinks and chips, single skyfs or packs of Remington Gold.

skyf (third-person singular simple present skyfs, present participle skyfing, simple past and past participle skyfed)

1. (South Africa, slang) To smoke cigarettes.
   • 2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer

     Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol. Skyfing. They skyfed at the beach, in the park, down the alley, outside parties and in speeding cars.

From Dutch schijf, from Middle Dutch skive.

• IPA^(key): /skəif/

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skyf (plural skywe)

1. slice
2. disk