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‖ oom S. Afr.|oːm|
[Afrikaans, = Du. oom, G. oheim, OE. ēam eme.]
Uncle: often used as a respectful appellation when referring to or addressing an older or elderly man.
1822W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. I. xvii. 433 Old Lucas, or as he was more familiarly called, Oom Hans (Uncle Hans), now turned back with us. 1883‘R. Iron’ Story Afr. Farm II. xii. 227 At the farmhouses where he stopped the ‘ooms’ and ‘tantes’ remembered clearly the spider with its four grey horses. 1885J. Nixon Compl. Story Transvaal vi. 116 Sir Theophilus Shepstone, by direction of the High Commissioner, applied to Paul Kruger, inviting him to help with a Boer force; but ‘Oom’ (uncle) Paul, as he was familiarly termed, declined. 1889H. A. Bryden Kloof & Karroo i. 42 Mr. Pieter Maynier, familiarly called by Graaff Reinetters, ‘Oom Piet’ (Oom, or uncle, being a term of affection in South Africa). 1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 349 Oom Paul, the ordinary designation of the President of the late Transvaal Republic. 1923Radio Times 28 Sept. 8/2 ‘Oom Jannie’, as he [sc. Smuts] is known among his own people. 1951L. G. Green Grow Lovely i. 17 That lean old man..—Oom Cappy van der Westhuysen is his name. 1971Rand Daily Mail 27 Mar. 5/5 Mr. Sneech, still active and still running his business, is known to almost every citizen as ‘Oom Harry’. 1974State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 28 Mar. 15-B/5 Why is it that man has to remain constantly at war with himself, oom Paul? |