‖bobbejaanboud, noun

/bɔbəˈjɑːnˌbəʊt/
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Formerly also babiaanbout, baviaan bout, etc.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African Dutch, DutchShow more Afrikaans, bobbejaan (adaptation of South African Dutch baviaan) baboon + boud (from Dutch bout) haunch, rump.
historical
A gun-stock with a large cheek-piece resembling a baboon’s haunch; any firearm with this stock. Also attributive. See also roer sense a.
1864 T. Baines Explor. in S.-W. Afr. 280Until he should become the happy owner of the ‘Babijaana’ (Baboons), a contraction of ‘Baviaan’s bout’ (Baboon’s thigh, the colonial term for a musket), he could enjoy nothing else.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 40Babiaanbout, The old-fashioned, muzzle-loading musket; the name refers to its shape.
1971 F.V. Lategan in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. IV. 520This particular shape of the stock with its large cheek-piece was nicknamed colloquially ‘bobbejaanboud’ (baboon-thigh).
1977 E. Prov. Herald May 14One of the earliest of these Cape guns to become so popular as to generate a nick-name for itself was the long barrelled ‘Bobbejaanboud’. This versatile weapon..was a smooth bore, muzzle-loader..and could be loaded with practically anything from a solid slug to half a palm full of coarse sand.
1980 Farmer’s Weekly 2 July 60There must still be hundreds of antique bobbejaanboud flintlocks still in existence about which the regular collectors know nothing.
1990 Caption, 1820 Settlers’ Memorial Museum, GrahamstownA typical ‘bobbejaanboud sterloop’ smooth-bore with a 45" barrel. The nickname referred to the heavy butt which was shaped like a baboon’s thigh.
A gun-stock with a large cheek-piece resembling a baboon’s haunch; any firearm with this stock. Also attributive.
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bobbejaan, nounn.bobbejaan spanner, noun phrasen. phr.
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