| 单词 | knobnose kaffirs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknobnose kaffirs Designating the Tsonga people of Southern Africa. Chiefly in knobnose kaffirs.Generally regarded as offensive.The epithet apparently arises from the formerly customary practice amongst the Tsonga of wearing a design of rounded lumps of raised scar tissue along the nose. Cf. button-scar n. at button n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples > person Kaffir1588 Zulu1824 Mantatee1833 Basotho1835 Mosothoa1838 knobnose1839 Manganja1859 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > types of nose > person having camois1485 swine snout1592 flat-nose16.. muzzle chops1611 firedrake1623 sneap-nosea1644 long-nose1691 knobnose1839 1839 Standard 25 Nov. All were massacred by the Malorika or Knopneus (Knobnose) Caffres. 1839 Bradford Observer 28 Nov. One party was entirely massacred by the knob nose Caffres. 1943 D. Reitz No Outspan iv. 59 We went up along the Sami river to Sibasa's country and then to the chief of the knob-nose kaffirs. 1974 A. P. Cartwright By Waters Letaba 20 Joao Albasini, native commissioner of the eastern district, chieftain of the ‘Knobnose Kaffirs’, as the Mashangana were nicknamed by the Boers, offered refuge to all in his fortress-like trading post. < as lemmas |
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