A word given to shorten the name of the all girls Afrikaans school in Pretoria, South Africa. The boys school on the other side of the rode how ever, are not Affies. A person can only be a Affie if she is true to her school and herself. A Affie girl will always greet other people and behave with respect to those around her.
Used to describe a student: a Affie
Used to describe the school: Affies
Person 1:“Did you see the Affie girls?”
Person 2:”Yes, all the students in Affies have the best manners!”
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.