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Windgat

🇿🇦 South Africa Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 2 definitions
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Windgat definition 1

Literally 'wind hole' in Afrikaans, meaning a show-off or arrogant person

"Don't be such a windgat! (Don't be such a show-off!)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Windgat definition 2

Show off, arrogant (Big headed)

"He's such a windgat (He's such a show off)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇿🇦 South Africa
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August 2025

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Someone who boasts a lot, someone who talks too much and has opinions on everything.

"That Donald Trump is a real windgat"
Windgat 🇳🇦 Namibia

Oku ikwata nawa / arrogant (Arrogant / show off)

"Don't be so windgat with your new car. (Don't be so arrogant with your new car.)"

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This word is also used in 2 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Windgat

Someone who boasts a lot, someone who talks too much and has opinions on everything.
Windgat 🇳🇦 Namibia

Oku ikwata nawa / arrogant (Arrogant / show off)

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