moer, verb

/mu(ː)r//mʊr/
Forms:
moera, moerrShow more Also moera, moerr, moor.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, from either moor murder, or moer (see moer noun2).
slang
Note:
Not in polite use.
1. transitive. donner verb sense 1.
1960 J. Taylor ‘Ballad of the Southern Suburbs’. (lyrics)If you won’t take us to the zoo, Then what the heck else can we do, But go on out and moera all the outjies next door.
1961 A. Fugard Notebks (1983) 25The old coloured women..had stolen an armful of the best dahlias...Mr X, Park Superintendent, said, ‘Take her down, moer her and learn her a lesson’.
1977 S. Roberts in E. Pereira Contemp. S. Afr. Plays 241I’ll moer him! I’ll moer him! Why can’t he take his bladdy car out?
1979 A.P. Brink Dry White Season 182Now they’ve released Johnny Fulani...They moered him until he signed.
1980 C. Hermer Diary of Maria Tholo 180Moer,..A swearword, in the sense, ‘Hurt until it degrades him’.
1990 Style July 81These two guys walked into the Harbour Cafe in Yeoville and just started moering everyone. I got hit on the head by a flying bar stool.
2. transitive. To kill (someone).
1985 Frontline Aug. 54When I saw what was left of him I just wanted to moer them. Even before that it was drummed into us that what we were there for was to moer the terrs. You feel nothing.
3. intransitive. To hit, bang (into).
1986 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)I threw my budgie with my koki and it moered into my file.
4. transitive. To throw, shove (something).
1991 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)I moered the chair through the ceiling...It didn’t come back.
To kill (someone).
To hit, bang (into).
To throw, shove (something).
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