| 释义 |
▪ I. sommer, adv. S. Afr. colloq.|ˈsɒmə(r)|
Also somaar, 9 somar, somer.
[a. Afrikaans somaar, sommer.]
Just, simply, for no specific reason, without further ado.
1835T. Bowker Jrnl. 12 May (MS.), Bowkers party gone out on patrole somer heard from the third Division, they have been shooting some Kafirs, & taking Cattle & Goats. 1850R. G. Cumming Five Yrs. Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. 27 The Dutch word somar..is also a word to which I think I could challenge the most learned school⁓master in the Colony to attach any definite meaning. It is used by both Boers and Hottentots in almost every sentence. 1920S. Black Dorp 174 ‘Ach, Oom Kaspar, can't I go back to look for my pipe and put it somaar in the box?’ ‘Nay, kerel, they won't let you go again inside the ballot-box.’ 1959Cape Times 15 Aug. (Weekend Mag.) 10/6 Too dangerous to sommer leave it like that with a child about the place. 1969A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 15 Sannie who? Sommer Sannie Somebody. 1975Daily Dispatch (E. London) 13 June 12 My father was a trader, who sold both blankets and ochre, and to my question as to why the tribesmen didn't sommer buy red blankets instead of going through all the trouble of dyeing white blankets with ochre, he replied that this was for hygienic reasons.
▪ II. sommer
var. somer Obs.; obs. f. summer n. and v. |