baasskap, noun
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, baas see baas + suffix -skap -ship.
Domination, especially by whites of other groups. Also attributive.
1935 Cape Times 8 Nov. 8Let us focus our attention on the fact that the primary consideration is whether Afrikanerdom will reach its ultimate destiny of bossism (baasskap) in South Africa.
1992 N. Mandela in Sunday Times 8 Mar. 23The age of lies, disinformation and CCB assassination squads has to be put behind us forever. There can be no revival of the hated pass laws, the Group Areas Act and the obnoxious signs on buses...There can be no going back to baasskap.
Domination, especially by whites of other groups. Also attributive.
- Derivatives:
- Hence (nonce) baasskap transitive verb, baasskapism noun, baasskapize transitive verb, baasskapper noun, baasskappy adjective.1966 L.G. Berger Where’s Madam 62I get all baaskaapy [sic] and yell at him, ‘Get up man while I’m talking to you. Get up, get up’.1985 Frontline May 3The Afrikaans ones are left free to baasskapise the black universities while the English-speakers fiddle around in an ivory limbo.
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