hansie, noun and & adjective
/hansi/
A. noun An orphaned or rejected animal reared by hand.
1892 H.S. Ellerbeck in Cape Illust. Mag. Vol.3 No.4, 141It was Mabel who always attended to the hantjies, the lambs whose mothers had died in giving them birth or refused to acknowledge their off-spring.
1973 Cape Times 6 June 9They don’t want to suckle their young...The farmer, or his wife, has to bottle feed the neglected hansies.
B. adjective hans.
1992 Grocott’s Mail 31 Mar. (Suppl.) 3I hope that we will have many cuddly lambs, bunnies and ducklings...We are still looking for some ‘Hansie’ lambs and kids.
An orphaned or rejected animal reared by hand.
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