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[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 190: There ain’t many laws [...] a man can’t get over if he’s smart, and don’t play the giddy goat.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 305: How many people at home are aware that the black labour of the mines is obtained by a system precisely identical with the ‘blackbirding’ in the Southern Seas?
at blackbirding, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 262: I am Bulalie, the baas’s head boy] .
at boss boy (n.) under boss, n.2
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 29: No, sir, your missionary civilisation means the production of a race of nigger Pecksniffs and Jeremy Diddlers.
at diddler, n.2
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 125: News travels fast in kafirdom.
at -dom, sfx
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 208: That’ll help pay exes in town to-night.
at exes, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 255: His fame rested principally on that faith-testing story, ‘The Regenerated Hottentot’.
at Hottentot, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 38: ‘He educated a kaflr girl and married her. That’s the result,’ Betts indicated the huts ... ‘He’s a white kafir now, with plenty of time on his hands for educating his nigger family.’.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 71: Grattan was ‘an old woman,’ a ‘disgrace to the Magisterial Bench’ [...] he was the most aggravating stickler for finicking formality.
at old woman, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 196: Never drink puza, never tell lies.
at phuza, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 202: Skoff (food), unlimited skoff, with sheep meat, bullock meat, every day.
at scoff, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 42: He knew how to be sick and lame when he would, so as to deceive even the white doctor [...] and was altogether a ‘slim’ kafir.
at slim, adj.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 269: You have never been in tronk, have you?
at tronk, n.
[SA] D. Blackburn Leaven 33: Chercher! Voetsak!
at voetsak!, excl.
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