verb
[no object]South AfricanBe stoical.
‘I am expected to vasbyt and bite back my tears’- ‘Very childish, we know, but sometimes we just have to ‘vasbyt’ until next year.’
- ‘I must be honest that I am finding it a bit difficult on my own but there ain't no turning back now - I gave up everything in Durban to come over here and have to vasbyt!’
Origin
Afrikaans, literally ‘bite hard’.
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