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rookgoed

English translation: tobacco/cigarettes


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09:22 Dec 22, 2009
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / language
English term or phrase: rookgoed
Here the sentence like:" He freely offers his cheroots, around, but his rookgoed is too strange, too foreign for the Coetzees."

I wonder what is "rookgoed" mean? A Afrikaans? I wonder.

Thank you!
macky
Local time: 03:48
English translation:tobacco/cigarettes
Explanation:
It's Afrikaans
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kmtext
Local time: 20:48
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6tobacco/cigaretteskmtext


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
tobacco/cigarettes


Explanation:
It's Afrikaans

kmtext
Local time: 20:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GaelicGaelic
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you for help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jim Tucker
9 mins
  -> Mòran taing

agree  Thayenga
53 mins
  -> Mòran taing

agree  Goldcoaster
1 hr
  -> Mòran taing

agree  Kim Metzger: And cigars and pipe too.
3 hrs
  -> Mòran taing

agree  eski: We will continue to work together, all of us, black and white, English speaking .... tobacco (rookgoed); * a Bible; * nylon rope; * a rope saw; * mirror; ... Geseënde Kersfees en 'n voorspoedige Nuwe jaar !
9 hrs
  -> Mòran taing.

agree  Anita du Plessis: But there is an English general term available, "smokes" or "smokables" The term you have is a general term for all the smokes.
23 hrs
  -> Mòran taing.
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