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bergie

bergie

English

Noun

bergie (plural bergies)

  1. (South Africa) A homeless person in the Cape Town. So called because they used to live in the mountains.
    • "The man then joined a group of bergies sleeping near the police station and pretended to be one of them when confronted by the rangers. But he was betrayed by a long trail of perlemoen slime leading from the road to the bergies' sleeping spot."

Afrikaans

Noun

bergie (plural bergies)

  1. (informal) a homeless person in Cape Town
  2. diminutive of berg