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Notebooks (1983) 9: Rather than the mental torture of ‘trying for white’ he has chosen the crude, physical hardships of being a coloured.at try for white (v.) under try, v.
Notebooks (1983) 9: Rather than the mental torture of ‘trying for white’ he has chosen the crude, physical hardships of being a coloured. Notebooks (1983) 24: Mom spoke of the draining board being cockrotted.at cock-rotted (adj.) under cock, n.3
Notebooks (1983) 25: The old coloured women [...] had stolen an armful of the best dahlias [...] Mr X, Park Superintendent, said, ‘Take her down, moer her and learn her a lesson’.at moer, v.
Notebooks (1983) 22: They laughed and called him names, ‘Kaffer! Swartgat!’.at swartgat, n.
Notebooks (1983) 80: Saying No [...] will result in all likelihood of your being dragged out and shot by the whites as a ‘kafferboetie’ traitor.at kaffirboetie, n.
Notebooks (1983) 147: ‘Nog ’n vrot ou huisie vir die vrot mens!’ Vrot – rotten, bad, useless, falling apart.at vrot, adj.
Notebooks (1983) 164: The vulgarities (swartgat, bloubek etc.). [Ibid.] 238: bloubek – ‘blue mouth’ vulgar term of abuse [...] swartgat – ‘black-arse’.at bloubek (n.) under blou, adj.
Notebooks (1983) 185: Suggestion of the ‘dwaal’ (confused wandering) in the backstreets.at dwaal, n.
Notebooks (1983) 208: Two men arrived on the Island handcuffed together.at Island, the, n.
Notebooks (1983) 208: Their friendship forged in the long trip [...] standing hand-cuffed together all the time, from Rooi Hel.at Rooihell, n.
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