subs. (South African).—A full meal. Fr. une lichance (from licher = lécher, ‘to lick’).
1864. LADY DUFF-GORDON, Letters from the Cape. I asked him [a young black shepherd at the Cape] to sing, and he flung himself at my feet in an attitude that would make Watts crazy with delight, and crooned queer little mournful ditties. I gave him sixpence, and told him not to get drunk. He said, ‘Oh, no; I will buy bread enough to make my belly stiff—I almost never had my belly stiff.’ He likewise informed me that he had just been in the Tronk [Cape Dutch slang for a prison, answering to the English stone-jug], and on my asking why, replied: ‘Oh, for fighting and telling lies.’
