A Hang of a Cackle

Every day I get the Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Day. Some are interesting, others are boring, still others are funny. The Word of the Day for August 6 was boet. Under the first definition, “A brother. Also prefixed to a man’s first name as an informal title,” is this example:

1974 ‘BLOSSOM’ in Darling (Durban) 8 May 91 ‘What you mean ouma?’ My boet gives out a hang of a cackle.

~ by Yuri Guri on August 9, 2008.