Noun: skyf
Sample Sentences
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Laduma rolls himself a skyf. It's cheap Swazi and rakes the lungs, but it's skyf nonetheless. [2004, A. K. Thembeka, Laduma, page 11:]
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Vendors walk up and down the line of cars selling warm cold-drinks and chips, single skyfs or packs of Remington Gold. [2010, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City, page 307:]
Nouns inflected like skyf
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Afrikaans skyf (“a slice; disk”), from Dutch schijf, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ. Doublet of shive and skive. See: Dutch Nouns '
schijf'.