Chipile

Pronounced "chip-ee-lee". Cheap or of poor quality in a mass-produced sort of way. Of Southern African origin - may be Chilapalapa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilapalapa) or Fanagalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanagalo).

Eish, my bag just broke - I shouldn't have bought something so chipile!

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tsotsi

Pronounced "tss-ot-see". A slang word common to most Southern African languages, a tsotsi is a person who is a rogue, a mischief-maker, a criminal, a bad element.

A synonym is "skelm", pronounced "skel-em", which has its roots in Afrikaans (and thus Dutch).

Parking in this part of town I'm always scared some bloody tsotsi's going to break into my car!

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