donnerse, adjective

/ˈdɔnə(r)sə/
Forms:
Also donderse.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, pronunciation-spelling of donderse, donder (see donder noun) + adjective-forming suffix -se.
Not in polite use. Damned, ‘bloody’; huge, tremendous.
Derivatives:
So donners  adverb, very, ‘bloody’.
1959 A. Delius Last Division 75It was like there’d been a donderse battle With Loch Ness Monsters and people and cattle and spooks and goggas and in-betweens.
1973 Star 3 Nov.A great many Afrikaners I know think ‘Kaffer’ is an o.k. word and that ‘Hotnot’ won’t give offence even when its applied to a university lecturer. But call that same Afrikaner a ‘donnerse boer’ and he’s yelling for the referee.
1979 D. Smuts (tr. of E. Joubert’s Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena) in Fair Lady 9 May 112Buti Plank was drunk and scolded her: Always Mdantsane, the donnerse Mdantsane.
1979 W. Ebersohn Lonely Place 103Its don’ers funny that Freek Jordaan should ’phone me about you coming out here.
1985 D. Kramer in Cosmopolitan May 102The bloody motor would shudder into life sounding like a donnerse diesel tractor starting up in the house.
Damned, ‘bloody’; huge, tremendous.
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donners
donner, verb transitivev.DONS, nounn.
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