bakgat

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans bak (“to bake, roast”) + gat (“bum”).

Adjective

bakgat (comparative more bakgat, superlative most bakgat)

1. (South Africa, slang) Great, good, fine, excellent.

   "Your car was pinking and I fixed it." "Bakgat".

   • 2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 March 2018:

     A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English".

Usage notes

It is often a positive response to a statement made by somebody else.