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[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 82: He called the old Basuto a ‘bloody old baboon’.
at baboon, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 163: He was asked, half jokingly, if he had ever had ‘black velvet’, and said ‘No, damn you! I’m South African’.
at black velvet (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 72: An ugly scene developed and the Native made the mistake of calling William a Boesman to his face. [Ibid.] 121: You, Boesman! You are going to die!
at boesman, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 203: You understand, don’t you, ou boet.
at boet, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 91: That old tjorrie goes very well and I’ve always liked a V8.
at chorrie, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 29: Baboon! You are going to the Government Hotel! Put on the irons!
at hotel, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 36: You can see it is used to shouting ‘you bloody kaffir’, and to hitting the ‘black kaffir’.
at kaffir, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 157: The old ooms and tannies of Katerina – my neighbours – tell me I need a wife.
at tannie, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 202: A doctor had come and gone. He was an exhausted man, for Asian influenza had broken out [...] and of the hyperchondriasis and lamentations of duka-wallahs he was heartily tired.
at wallah, n.
[UK] D. Bee Children of Yesterday 29: ‘Pah! Wogs!’ O’Brien said.
at wog, n.1
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