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/ˈfʊtsɑk/ · interjection
(South Africa) get lost! go away! An exclamation of dismissal or rejection..
One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him. "He called me a kaffir and other insulting names," Arthur says with a laugh. "As we left he screamed at us to 'voetsek'. I thought it was funny enough to make a good song."
At that moment, I heard a cry from behind the tightening ring. “Hey! Voetsek you skelems!” The young ruffians parted to reveal the old Zulu man.
Use voetsek when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Voetsek means (South Africa) get lost! go away! An exclamation of dismissal or rejection..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him. "He called me a kaffir and other insulting names," Arthur says with a laugh. "As we left he screamed at us to 'voetsek'. I thought it was funny enough to make a good song."
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