Cape boyn.

Brit.

/ˈkeɪp bɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˈkeɪp ˌbɔɪ/, South African English

/ˈkeɪp bɔɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cape n.³, boy n.¹

Etymology: < cape n.³ + boy n.¹ (compare sense 1c at that entry).

South African. Now historical.

1. A man or boy of mixed ethnic descent (cf. coloured adj. 3d) born or living in the Western Cape of South Africa; spec. a member of a force of soldiers serving on the British side in the Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900) during the Second Boer War. Cf. Cape Coloured adj. and n.Now offensive except in the specific historical military senses (see also sense 2); cf. boy n.¹ 1c.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]

spahi1562

legionnaire1595

strelitz1603

Croat1623

deli1667

Croatian1700

lancer1712

highlander1725

lambs1744

royals1762

light-bob1778

fly-slicer1785

Life Guardsman1785

royals?1795

Hottentot1796

yeoman1798

pandour1800

Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811

forty-two man1816

kilty1842

Zouave1848

bumblerc1850

Inniskilliner1853

blue cap1857

turco1860

Zou-Zou1860

mudlark1878

king's man1883

Johnny1888

Piffer1892

evzone1897

horse gunner1897

dink1906

army ranger1910

grognard1912

Jock1914

chocolate soldier1915

Cook's tourist1915

dinkum1916

Anzaca1918

choc1917

ranger1942

Chindit1943

Desert Rat1944

Green Beret1949

the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa > person

Kaffir1704

Bechuana1804

Red Kaffir1821

Motswana1830

Vaalpens1871

Batswana1894

Tswana1938

1878 A. Trollope S. Afr. I. vii. 112 The well shaded black and white of the so-called ‘Cape Boy’ who has the mixed blood of Portuguese and Negroes in his veins.

1892 J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity ii. 20 Cape carts, driven by Malays and Cape boys, rattled up and down the streets in numbers.

1900 Diary 6 Feb. in E. Ross Diary Siege of Mafeking (1980) v. 135 Last night, Currie and his Cape Boys occupied a trench about 200 yards in advance of their extreme outpost, and..so got the better of the enemy's snipers.

1911 M. S. Evans Black & White in S.-E. Afr. x. 298 The Cape boys are scattered over the colony, engaged on farm work, as drivers and handy men.

1929 J. G. Van Alphen Jan Venter 30 Because the coloured or Cape boy has a strain of European blood, he gets almost all the privileges of the white man, including a parliamentary vote.

1957 D. Grinnell-Milne Baden-Powell at Mafeking 152 The lurid terms used by the hard-fighting Cape Boys in the Brickfields when the Boers over the way sang out and called them ‘bastards’.

2009 J. Muzondidya in M. Adhikari Burdened by Race vii. 160 Among the ‘Cape boys’ who accompanied the white pioneers were persons who saw themselves and were seen by others as coloured.

2. Any black or Coloured (coloured adj. 3d) South African soldier who served on the British side during the Second Matabele War (1896–7) in Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe).

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1896 F. C. Selous Sunshine & Storm Rhodesia 59 This force was, however, augmented by about 150 Cape boys, chiefly Amaxosa Kafirs and Zulus.

1896 Spectator 2 May 629 A Cape ‘boy’ fighting at Bulawayo is..a coloured native enlisted and drilled within the Colony.

1961 T. V. Bulpin White Whirlwind 306 On his own he had already unofficially organised what was half-jocularly known as Colenbrander's Cape Boys. This was simply a small scouting and defensive force of 150 men, Coloureds, Xhosas and Zulus.

2017 G. van Tonder Sheffield's Mil. Legacy (e-book ed.) With Baden-Powell and his scouts in front, the Colenbrander and Robertson Cape Boys marched out.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	cape boy
释义	Cape boyn. Brit. /ˈkeɪp bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈkeɪp ˌbɔɪ/, South African English /ˈkeɪp bɔɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cape n.³, boy n.¹ Etymology: < cape n.³ + boy n.¹ (compare sense 1c at that entry). South African. Now historical. 1. A man or boy of mixed ethnic descent (cf. coloured adj. 3d) born or living in the Western Cape of South Africa; spec. a member of a force of soldiers serving on the British side in the Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900) during the Second Boer War. Cf. Cape Coloured adj. and n.Now offensive except in the specific historical military senses (see also sense 2); cf. boy n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun] spahi1562 legionnaire1595 strelitz1603 Croat1623 deli1667 Croatian1700 lancer1712 highlander1725 lambs1744 royals1762 light-bob1778 fly-slicer1785 Life Guardsman1785 royals?1795 Hottentot1796 yeoman1798 pandour1800 Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811 forty-two man1816 kilty1842 Zouave1848 bumblerc1850 Inniskilliner1853 blue cap1857 turco1860 Zou-Zou1860 mudlark1878 king's man1883 Johnny1888 Piffer1892 evzone1897 horse gunner1897 dink1906 army ranger1910 grognard1912 Jock1914 chocolate soldier1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 Anzaca1918 choc1917 ranger1942 Chindit1943 Desert Rat1944 Green Beret1949 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa > person Kaffir1704 Bechuana1804 Red Kaffir1821 Motswana1830 Vaalpens1871 Batswana1894 Tswana1938 1878 A. Trollope S. Afr. I. vii. 112 The well shaded black and white of the so-called ‘Cape Boy’ who has the mixed blood of Portuguese and Negroes in his veins. 1892 J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity ii. 20 Cape carts, driven by Malays and Cape boys, rattled up and down the streets in numbers. 1900 Diary 6 Feb. in E. Ross Diary Siege of Mafeking (1980) v. 135 Last night, Currie and his Cape Boys occupied a trench about 200 yards in advance of their extreme outpost, and..so got the better of the enemy's snipers. 1911 M. S. Evans Black & White in S.-E. Afr. x. 298 The Cape boys are scattered over the colony, engaged on farm work, as drivers and handy men. 1929 J. G. Van Alphen Jan Venter 30 Because the coloured or Cape boy has a strain of European blood, he gets almost all the privileges of the white man, including a parliamentary vote. 1957 D. Grinnell-Milne Baden-Powell at Mafeking 152 The lurid terms used by the hard-fighting Cape Boys in the Brickfields when the Boers over the way sang out and called them ‘bastards’. 2009 J. Muzondidya in M. Adhikari Burdened by Race vii. 160 Among the ‘Cape boys’ who accompanied the white pioneers were persons who saw themselves and were seen by others as coloured. 2. Any black or Coloured (coloured adj. 3d) South African soldier who served on the British side during the Second Matabele War (1896–7) in Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). ΚΠ 1896 F. C. Selous Sunshine & Storm Rhodesia 59 This force was, however, augmented by about 150 Cape boys, chiefly Amaxosa Kafirs and Zulus. 1896 Spectator 2 May 629 A Cape ‘boy’ fighting at Bulawayo is..a coloured native enlisted and drilled within the Colony. 1961 T. V. Bulpin White Whirlwind 306 On his own he had already unofficially organised what was half-jocularly known as Colenbrander's Cape Boys. This was simply a small scouting and defensive force of 150 men, Coloureds, Xhosas and Zulus. 2017 G. van Tonder Sheffield's Mil. Legacy (e-book ed.) With Baden-Powell and his scouts in front, the Colenbrander and Robertson Cape Boys marched out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1878
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