tronk
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tronk
Afrikaans
Example Sentences
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You’d ’ave been in tronk, where they makes yer wash yer face every morning—behind the ears too.
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Are you the vagabond Bushman who got Willem Bester into the tronk?”
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Willem Bester died in the tronk.
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I know, for I have worked at the diamond fields, that I should be sent back to the tronk if that stone were found on me, so I thought you might sell it and give me half the money.
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Perhaps you’ll tell me next that you’ve never been in the tronk, either, eh?”
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