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Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 20: He felt that he had the London Government ‘by the short hairs’ as the settlers say.at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 20: He felt that he had the London Government ‘by the short hairs’ as the settlers say. Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 60: They still kept ‘Father’s Folly’ as a private reserve for their Kaffir labour-tenants – ‘black stuff’ which can always eke out a monkey-brand subsistence.at black stuff, n.2
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 28: ‘Heather Mixture’ [...] is even stronger than our ‘Cape Smoke’.at cape smoke, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 18: When he remonstrated in Afrikaans she denounced him as a renegade and ‘handsupper’.at handsupper (n.) under hand, n.1
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 43: It was a terrible moment when he invited the Predikant to [...] ‘muck in’ as the Settlers say.at muck in, v.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 28: Even the [...] English seem to prefer a girl as scraggy as a kaffir hen. [Ibid.] 108: The Police found ‘Mr. Mason’ under a bush, sleeping off a pound’s worth of Kaffir beer.at kaffir beer (n.) under kaffir, adj.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 40: He and the doctor drove a grim ‘Kaffir bargain’.at kaffir, adj.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 45: The doctor, who did Oom Betje’s ‘op’ at a special discount for cash in advance.at op, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 179: Boys will be boys, and none liked to be called ‘pap-broek’ or nincompoop.at papbroek, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 49: Oom Abram Silberman the ‘smous’ – the donkey pedlar.at smous, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 151: There is shark’s small-fry for sale to ‘black stuff’ as ‘sardines’.at black stuff, n.2
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 117: In May 1915 he and his wife trekked in to Rustenburg, eight days by donkey-wagon ‘in the blue’, five of them through what was then still mere no-man’s land.at in the blue under blue, n.1
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 140: After several ‘corpse-revivers’ and an appetiser for breakfast, he walked in to the dorp.at corpse reviver (n.) under corpse, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 127: Each of them must put a bottle of ‘dop’ or Hatherley Whiskey into the pool.at dop, n.1
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 157: It was that which made Tante Rebella give tongue, calling the Minister and his She-Inspector a pair of fat-headed foreign frumps.at fat-headed, adj.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 117: That ‘slim trick’ was one more count in the republican indictment against Botha as a ‘Khaki General’, a traitor to the cause of freedom.at khaki, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 95: An old-man baboon up on the koppie.at old man, adj.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 143: His fellow passenger [...] seemed to be making a point of chatting on terms of equality with ‘Coloured Mary’.at Mary, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 139: Dolk invited all the Blankenhorsts in for a ‘sundowner’ of Welsh Whiskey, oiling them up to take his Great Thought.at oil up (v.) under oil, v.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 139: Dolk invited all the Blankenhorsts in for a ‘sundowner’ of Welsh Whiskey, oiling them up to take his Great Thought.at oil, v.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 117: That ‘slim trick’ was one more count in the republican indictment against Botha as a ‘Khaki General’, a traitor to the cause of freedom.at slim, adj.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 139: Dolk invited all the Blankenhorsts in for a ‘sundowner’ of Welsh Whiskey.at sundowner, n.
Tante Rebella and her Friends (1951) 143: Disgustin’ I calls it; fair gives me the ’ump to see that feller [...] a-talkin’ to that old Tottie girl just as if she was white.at tottie, n.1
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