outlander, noun

Forms:
Also with initial capital.
Origin:
Afrikaans, British English, Dutch, GermanShow more Calqued on Afrikaans uitlander. Cf. British English outlander, from Dutch and German, from the early 17th century.
uitlander noun. Also attributive.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. (U.K.) 10 Oct. 3At Johannesburg this National Union has been formed, comprising not only ‘uitlanders’ (outlanders) but Boers.
1896 Daily Telegraph (U.K.) 1 Feb. 6The racial antagonism between Boers and Outlanders.
1899 Westminster Gaz. (U.K.) 25 Apr. 1If this is so, we may indeed dry our eyes about Outlander grievances.
1936 E.C. Llewellyn Influence of Low Dutch 171Outlander..is the Anglicized form of Du. uitlander, an alien, foreigner, applied by the Boers of the Transvaal to the alien population attracted to the country by the goldfields of the Rand.
1940 F.B. Young City of Gold 439A man who..hated from the bottom of his soul the outlanders, who had already made his bankrupt state rich.
1944 J. Mockford Here Are S. Africans 93In the eyes of Paul Kruger..these gold grabbers were uitlanders, outlanders, foreigners.
1962 L.E. Neame Hist. of Apartheid 26Secure better treatment for the British and other Outlanders in the Transvaal.
1974 D. Rooke Margaretha de la Porte 23The Transvaal..was swarming with Englishmen, indeed with foreigners of all nationalities, clamouring for the franchise: Uitlanders the Dutch called us — Outlanders.
1990 Style June 127The influx of fancy outlanders can, and usually does, overtax the system to a point where even hot water is unobtainable.
uitlander noun. Also attributive.
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outjie, nounn.outspan, nounn.
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