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Potjiekos

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Potjiekos (Pot food)

"Re apaya potjiekos (We're cooking potjiekos)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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The term Potjiekos is used in African vernacular speech.

Potjiekos 🇿🇦 South Africa

Pot kos (Pot food)

"Three-legged potjiekos (Three-legged pot food)"

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Botswana slang merges Setswana with English, with Gaborone youth driving a modern lexicon influenced by South African township culture.

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🌍 "Potjiekos" Across Africa

This word is also used in 3 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Potjiekos

The term Potjiekos is used in African vernacular speech.
Potjiekos 🇿🇦 South Africa

Pot kos (Pot food)
Potjiekos 🇳🇦 Namibia

Iikulya mombiya / pot food (Pot stew)

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