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Boer|bʊə(r), bəʊə(r), or bɔə(r), Afrikaans buː(r)|
Formerly boor.
[a. Du. boer ‘countryman, peasant, farmer’, the same word that in a general sense is spelt boor. The latter was formerly used also for the Dutch settlers in South Africa, but in more recent times the Du. spelling boer has been appropriated to this sense.]
a. A Dutch colonist in South Africa engaged in agriculture or cattle-breeding. ‘In recent newspaper language, the name has been applied especially to those of the Transvaal and other districts beyond the British dominions’ (N.E.D., 1887).
See earlier quots. under boor 2 b.
1834Pringle Afr. Sk. i. 127 Tall Dutch-African boors..were bawling in Colonial-Dutch. Ibid. iv. 182 To begin the world respectably as a Vei Boer, or grazier. 1857Livingstone Trav. ii. 29 The Boers of the Cashan Mountains..The word Boer simply means ‘farmer’, and is not synonymous with our word boor. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. i. 11 Such a story..would be naturally referred to the Dutch boers.
b. ˈBoerdom, the community or state of the Boers.
1884Pall Mall G. 15 Oct. 6/1 Boerdom develops faster than British progress.
2. S. Afr. In special Comb. signifying made, produced, used by, or typical of Boers; often also ‖ boere- |ˈbuːrə|: boerbeskuit, boer biscuit, boermeal, boer(e)musiek, boer-rusk, boer(e)wors |-vɔːs|, boerwyn |-veɪn|.
1943‘B. Knight’ Covenant (1944) iv. xix. 232 There was a good supply of..biltong and Boerbeskuit and a couple of roasted fowls.
1882Mrs. Heckford Lady Trader in Transvaal xxviii. 309 Hendrik managed to get some Boer biscuits from this man. a1920O. Schreiner From Man to Man (1926) iii. 111 One morning..Baby-Bertie was kneeling in the pantry, making Boer biscuits.
1873F. Boyle To the Cape for Diamonds x. 141 Boer meal (cheap at this moment (42s per muid (200 lbs)). [1878Roche's ‘On Trek in the Transvaal’ 110 (Pettman), Bread we could not get, only the Boer's meal, i.e. the flour of the country.] 1949Cape Times 24 Sept. 8/7 We used to get on farms the boermeal bread made from wheat, and nothing but wheat.
1952Ibid. 27 Sept. 4/4 The music blared forth real boeremusiek which sent the whole crowd dancing.
1937S. Cloete Turning Wheels xxv. 392 Going without food except for the Boer rusks and biltong that he carried. 1944V. Pohl Adv. Boer Fam. i. 12 Saddlebags stuffed to bursting with boer-rusks, bread and biltong.
1948Cape Times 18 Sept. 9/6 An expert on sosaties, boerwors, and braaivleis. 1950L. G. Green Land of Afternoon iv. 63 Boerewors is another farm product which some still make in the old way; a sausage in which the meat has been pounded with a wooden stamper rather than minced. Modern boerewors..is usually a mixture of lean beef with pork fat, seasoned with wine or vinegar.
1947Cape Times 14 May 3/6 Boerwyn—the unfortified wine sold to coloured patrons.
3. Special Comb. Boer War, the South African war (1899–1902), between the Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and Great Britain and her colonies; cf. Anglo-Boer s.v. Anglo- 2.
[1899G. Meredith Let. 27 Oct. (1970) III. 1337, I need patience even to speak of this Boer War.] 1900C. M. Yonge Let. 17 July in C. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) xii. 345 Aimée tried to explain the rights of the *Boer War. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. v. 587 He..figuratively marched across the road to the Canning..galvanizing..the Oxford Tories now wilting under the strain of the Boer war. 1955G. Greene Quiet American i. iv. 52 Like a panorama of the Boer War in an old Illustrated London News. 1981H. Domisse in D. Harrison White Tribe of Africa i. 24 This Boer War, was the stupidest war the English ever carried on. |