Gongongahaffa (guhn-guhn-
gah-haf-fah):
"You are going to have to".
Gongongahaffa is almost
always followed by a verb/noun pair. This v/n pair will often exhibit the same compressed quality that Gongongahaffa exhibits. The
single most
popular gongongahaffa expression is: Gongonahaffa-eepoo or "You are going to have to eat
poo," which is used to convey "You're fucked now!" to someone who has gotten themselves into a bad situation:
Ooooh! You shouldn't have done that. Now gongongahaffa-eepoo.
There is sometimes confusion about why this word is not "gongahaffa" which might seem to make more sense. The answer lies in the word's origins. The word comes from a song by a musical artist named "mr strauss":
"You're gongongahaffa eat
poo, yeah that's what you're gongahaffa do, yeah now gongongahaffa, yeah now gongongahaffa, yeah now gongongahaffa eat
poo."
Note that the
short form, "gongahaffa" does occur once in the song. This
short form, however, is considered deprecated. It is no longer in common use.
Gongongahaffa, in some communities, can be preceeded with "You're." Despite the obvious redundancy of doing so, it is considered technically correct, albeit a little strange, to do so.
