wait-a-bit

Meaning

Noun

Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.
Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America

Origin

From Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie.
From the delay caused by the recurved thorns

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