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A Nobody in Mashonaland choose

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[SA] C.E. Finlason A Nobody in Mashonaland 184: In some parts the lions are simply awful, and scoff fifty per cent of the men who have gone down.
at go down, v.
[SA] C.E. Finlason A Nobody in Mashonaland 9: When he is not sleeping he is drinking kaffir beer.
at kaffir beer (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[SA] C.E. Finlason A Nobody in Mashonaland 23: This is the Boer’s delicate way of emphasising his regard for the verdomde Rooinek, i.e., d---d redneck, which was the name given to the British soldiers in the late war.
at rooinek, n.
[SA] C.E. Finlason A Nobody in Mashonaland 12: The Chief used to go to church in a spider. (*A light four-wheeled trap).
at spider, n.
[SA] C.E. Finlason A Nobody in Mashonaland 23: This is the Boer’s delicate way of emphasising his regard for the verdomde Rooinek, i.e., d---d redneck, which was the name given to the British soldiers in the late war.
at verdomde, adj.
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