Bergie
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Noun
- A homeless person in the Cape Town. So called because they used to live in the mountains.
- "The man then joined a group of bergies sleeping near the police station and pretended to be one of them when confronted by the rangers. But he was betrayed by a long trail of perlemoen slime leading from the road to the bergies' sleeping spot." http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&%20click_id=13&art_id=vn20050309113109163C843748%20-%2066k%20-%20Supplemental%20Result