Kaffir
[kæfə(r)]
Definition
(noun.) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African.
Checker: Patrice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Kafir
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Examples
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Among these are kaffir corn, sorghum, alfalfa, clover, millet, cowpeas, soy-beans, sugar beets, oats and even weeds and thistles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ordinary standard of value with the early Aryans was cattle, as it still is with the Zulus and Kaffirs to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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