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English
Etymology
Afrikaans stompie, diminutive of stomp (“stump”).
Pronunciation
Noun
stompie (plural stompies)
- (South Africa) A cigarette butt.
1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:I must get outside because the stink of stale brandy and piss and old stompies will not let me breathe and the sides of my head are too tight.
2010, Thandiwe Kgosidintsi, Thelma for President, page 87:Bigger boys were known to stand at street corners, smoking stompies of cigarettes and rolls of dagga.
Derived terms
Translations
cigarette butt
— see buttReferences
- 1978: A Dictionary of South African English: Editor Jean Branford: Oxford.
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