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verneuk, v. S. Afr. slang.|vərˈnuk|
Also vinook.
[ad. Cape Du. verneuken (also in W. Flem., with variant vernukken).]
trans. To cheat, humbug, swindle.
1871Cape Monthly Mag. III. 46 (Pettman), How Hendrick enjoyed verneuking the Boer. 1905D. Blackburn R. Hartley, Prospector xiii, So you have verneuked me? 1909R. Cullum Compact xviii. 213 He has vinooked the Kaffir chiefs into granting large concessions.
Hence verˈneuker. Also verˈneukering vbl. n., verˈneukery [a. Cape Du. verneukerie.]
1896in Westm. Gaz. 4 July 8/1 But we women of South Africa despise such maudlin verneukery. 1900Sir J. Robinson Life Time S. Africa vii. 185 Hence arose the practice of ‘verneukering’—by which buyer and seller each sought to get the better of the other. 1905D. Blackburn R. Hartley xiii, Do you take me for a Boer verneuker? |