handsopper, noun
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Partial translation of Afrikaans hensopper, see hensopper.
obs.
1. hands-upper sense 1 a.
1903 E.F. Knight S. Afr. after War 60I told them that..we Transvaalers for our part had had our bellyful of war and wanted no more of it. They..cursed me as a ‘handsopper’.
1946 V. Pohl Adventures of Boer Family 173Some of our men met a number of handsoppers who were employed by the British one way or another.
2. hands-upper sense 2.
1931 H.C. Bosman Mafeking Rd (1969) 148The other farmers around there became annoyed on account of Koos Steyn’s friendship with the rooinek. They said Koos was a handsopper and a traitor to his country.
1949 A. Keppel-Jones When Smuts Goes 202The ‘handsoppers’ soon gained control of Johannesburg, whose city hall housed what was in effect a rebel government.
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