hotnot n.
(S.Afr.) a derog. term for a black person; also adj.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | ‘Kaatje Kekkelbek or Life Among the Hottentots’ in (1888) II 556: Hij laat al de Hotnots werk op de hard way, which is a very hard way of dealing met de poer Hotnots. | |
| Africanderisms 217: Hotnot A common Dutch pronunciation of Hottentot. | |
| Young Traveller in S. Afr. 99: These houses [...] belonged to the Kleurlinge, Gamats or ‘Hotnots’, as the coloured farm labourers were variously known. | |
| Last Division 73: ‘One’s come!’ ‘A Coloured!’ ‘A Hotnot!’ [Ibid.] 74: You bloody old bastard, Blikskottel, Hotnot! | |
| Walk in the Night (1968) 31: If you’re not bloody fed-up with riding around looking at these effing hotnot bastards, let’s go. [Ibid.] 79: The way he behaved in that place, sneering and putting on in front of those hotnots. | |
| 20 Days that Autumn 89: Ek is ’n Hotnot. – I’m no Kaffir. | |
| Boesman and Lena Act I: Then shut up, or you will! I’m a happy Hotnot. laughing all the time . . . inside! | |
| (con. 1920s) Looking on Darkness 64: Blerry Hotnot! Who do you think you are, hey? Taking our jobs, shitting on us, hey. | |
| The Park and Other Stories (2nd edn) 129: Hotnot! You dare presume that God would converse with you? | |
| My Traitor’s Heart (1991) 112: Many whites refused to set foot in his general store, claiming it to be permeated by a vuil Hotnotstink – the foul reek of Hottentot. | |
| (con. 1950s) Boyhood (1998) Boyhood (1998) 72: You only have to [...] wave your arms and shout, ‘Voetsek, hotnot! Loop! Loop!’. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 27 Oct. 🌐 The list of prohibited words has been narrowed down to ‘kaffir’, ‘kaffirmeid’, ‘coolie’, ‘hotnot’ and their variations. | |
| Acid Alex 17: The men [...] were neither black nor white – but in between. Waly had told us these people were called Hotnots, and some of them were even Worse Than Kaffirs. | |
 | Sun. Times (SA) 13 Mar. 8/4: He told the court his boss ordered him and his ‘hotnot’ wife and children to ‘f-ckof’. |