nooit

British

/ nɔɪt /

interjection

an exclamation expressive of surprise, admiration, disgust, etc

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Etymology

Origin of nooit

from Afrikaans, literally: never

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Maar”,—and here I sank my voice to a confidential whisper, to make the irrelevancy sound as like wit as possible,—“maar, U weet nooit hoe een koe een haas vangt!”

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown

Then there were some plain and unornamental phrases such as “Men weet nooit hoe een koe eenen haas vangt”.—This was labelled ‘proverbial expression’, and was translated, happily enough, by “The unexpected often occurs.”

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown

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