bakgat

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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

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