gees

The most direct translation from the native Afrikaans (of South Africa) is "spirit" and that captures most, but not all of the essence of what gees is all about. An event or get together can have gees. A person can encapsulate gees.

Gees is also interchangeable with "cool", "fun", "positive" or "awesome" and is one of those fantastic words whose meaning shifts depending on context.

Holy kak boet, that braai was gees!

Fok, that guy over there has all the gees hey...

We really need to get the gees going at this funeral. Everyone's pretty lam...

Maritjie is a bit of a poes, but at least Johan makes up for it with major gees!