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Stellenbosch, v. Milit. slang.|ˈstɛlənbɒʃ|
[f. Stellenbosch, a town and a division of Cape Province.]
(See quot. 1913.)
1900Kipling in Daily Express 16 June 4/6 ‘After all’, said one cheerily..‘what does it matter, old man? You're bound to be Stellenbosched in three days’. 1900Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 6/1, I heard..that he had been ‘Stellenbosched’... I must inform the uninitiated that Stellenbosch..was formerly the place selected for command by officers who had failed in Kaffir wars; and to be ‘Stellenbosched’ is the equivalent of being superseded without formal disgrace. 1900Ibid. 20 Oct. 7/1 It is a gross injustice to Stellenbosch any doctor because some nurse does not get her own way, and has influence in high quarters. 1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 475 Stellenboshed [sic], To be, to be relegated, as the result of incompetence, to a position in which little harm can be done. |