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  • interjection South Africa phew; whew; expressing resignation

Etymologies

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Afrikaans

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Examples

  • The whole ride home, between long periods of silence because we were so tired and full, someone would pipe up and say, Woo, eish!

    Archive 2009-08-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

  • The whole ride home, between long periods of silence because we were so tired and full, someone would pipe up and say, Woo, eish!

    The Day She Saw A Plane Up Close Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

  • For the more mystically minded, it might be noted that, strangely, the gematria of “ice cream” is the same as “tzli eish”.

    Celebrating the multi-cultural world of spring holidays | Jewschool 2007

  • Now government admits that labour unions are a problem when it comes to job creation, BUT at the same time they are BIIIG buddies with cosatu! eish i dont andastand!

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • How many divinators have they approached already eish

    IOL: News 2010

  • And it only took the ANC 10 years to screw it up. .eish.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • He's going to threaten to spill the beans on some arms-trade issues and his buddies are gonna sort him out one time! eish

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Eish ... for a person living in Jo'burg and working in Pretoria this is suicide, on top of everything else one still needs to pay for tollgates being build everywhere, someone needs to understand that some of us depend on travelling to make a living ..... eish ANc can double delivery if they halve the amount of fraud they commit.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • We must warn the Maxwele's of SA to take cover ... eish really

    Guardian Online 2010

  • Feel sorry for the Stormers who have to face the Blues next week - eish @ Eden Park these guys play out of their skins.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

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