boertjie, noun
- Forms:
- Also boeretjie, and with initial capital.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, boer Afrikaner + -ie.
A name for an Afrikaner (sense 2 a), usually derogatory but also used affectionately. Also attributive.
1971 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Please send me a photo of Paul with his short hair — I can’t imagine him like that — I suppose he looks just like a ‘boeretjie’ now!
1990 P. Fenster in Sunday Times 22 July 6TV’s S— R— and his boertjie wife Trudi...Trudi looks for all the world like her own description of herself — ‘a protected Boertjie from clean, white Pretoria’.
A name for an Afrikaner (sense 2 a), usually derogatory but also used affectionately. Also attributive.
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