hairyback, noun

Origin:
EnglishShow more English hairy (derogatory) suggesting ill-bred, primitive + back.
derogatory, offensive, slang
An insulting name for an Afrikaner person. Also attributive.
1970 Cape Times 16 MayThere should be a match arranged between the Springboks and an Invitation side from the hairiest hairy-back elements of the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch.
1970 B. Kirk-Cohen Informant, Pietersburg (now Polokwane)Hairy backs. Afrikaners.
1975 G. McIntosh in E. Prov. Herald 11 Sept. 3‘Kaffir’ is regarded as an insult in South Africa. It is in the same category as ‘hairy back’ ‘dutchman’ or ‘coolies’.
1978 A.P. Brink Rumours of Rain 405I heard..the red haired English lady shouting in a sudden outburst of quite uncontrolled hate: ‘You bloody Boers, just a lot of hairybacks, that’s what you are!’
1981 Sunday Times 15 Mar. 21Would you like to be an Afrikaner and be plastered with ‘Hairy back’, ‘Rock spider’, ‘Skaaps’, ‘Narrow’, or be English and be plastered with ‘Rooinek’ and ‘Kaffer-boetie’?
1990 J.G. Davis Land God Made in Anger 200‘No wonder you haven’t got much time for the South African government.’ ‘Goddam Hairybacks.’
1993 [see Amabhunu sense 1].
An insulting name for an Afrikaner person. Also attributive.
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