setlaar, noun

/ˈsetlɑː(r)/
Forms:
Also setlar, settlaar, and with initial capital.
Origin:
South African Dutch.
obs. except in historical contexts
settler sense 2 a. Often derogatory.
Note:
Used to suggest the speech of South African Dutch and, later, Afrikaans people.
1846 A.G. Bain Jrnls (1949) 199Then to an Engels setlaar fool We had ourselves contracted.
a1862 J. Ayliff Jrnl of ‘Harry Hastings’ (1963) 55The knavish Hottentots..called out one to another ‘aller mopstick’ or something like that, ‘Englis setlars!’
1885 L.H. Meurant 60 Yrs Ago 80In ringing his brass plate at the commencement of a sale his stereotyped condition was — ‘drie monts krediet for de Christemens — no krediet for de Settlaar.’
1968 F.G. Butler Cape Charade 9If everybody who got drunk at New Year was sent to work on the road, the road would be past the Langkloof, past the Setlaars, past the Xhosas and past the Pondoes, right among the Zulus by now.
settler sense 2 a. Often derogatory.
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seties, nounn.Setswana, nounn.
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