Veldt (also Veld) (noun)
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Open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is conventionally divided by altitude into highveld, middleveld, and lowveld.
Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally ‘field’.
Example sentences
“She watched the acres of open veldt before her.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
