stormjaer, noun

/ˈstɔːmjɑː(r)//ˈstɔrmjɑːr/
Forms:
Also storm jager.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, storm storm + jaer (earlier jager) hunter.
1. Usually in the plural : Dumplings fried in fat, or baked in the embers of a fire, made often by travellers as a substitute for bread. See also maagbom. Cf. askoek sense 1, vetkoek.
1900 F.R.M. Cleaver in M.M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 39In looking for writing material I remember that I have used my writing paper for wrapping up ‘stormjagers’ (cakes fried in fat), and that owing to grease it will no longer retain the impression of ink.
1900 F.R.M. Cleaver in M.M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 39 [see pannekoek].
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 481Stormjagers, Dumplings cooked in fat; they can be quickly prepared, and are often made by men living in the veld. The name and the thing were both well known before De Wet’s men prepared them.
1955 L.G. Green Karoo 99There is also a type of asbrood, a mixture of meal and water and soda baked in cakes in the campfire embers, known as stormjaers (dumplings).
1956 P. Becker Sandy Tracks 90There had been mutton, vegetables, milk, and ‘stormjaers’, wholesome flour cakes, baked in the ash of the camp fire.
1963 S. Cloete Rags of Glory 41Moolman taught the boys how to cook the flour they drew in boiling fat. These delicacies were known as stormjagers or maagbommen, that is to say, storm hunters because they were rapidly cooked, or stomach bombs, owing to their effect of the digestion.
1975 W. Steenkamp Land of Thirst King 126The most basic item in the Namaqualander’s larder is the so-called ‘stormjaer’, a kind of dumpling which was often used as a substitute for fresh bread when the farmers went out hunting or were summoned for a commando expedition.
2. In historical contexts. Usually with initial capital. A member of the military wing of the Ossewa Brandwag (see OB noun1). Frequently used collectively in the plural. Also attributive.
1942 D.F. Malan in Hansard 2 Feb. 1328They had never before heard of such an inner circle. They never knew that there were Stormjaers.
1948 O. Walker Kaffirs Are Lively 153The Ossewa Brandwag — Ox-wagon Sentinel — movement and its inner core of Stormjaers — fighters.
1956 H. Van Rensburg Their Paths Crossed Mine 160The ferment of activism in the O.B. was the Stormjaer element — the S.J.s, as they were commonly called.
1972 Sunday Times 3 Dec. 4He would start his speech with ‘Broeders, friends, warriors, rapportryers, verraaiers, stormjaers, ruiterwagte and front-line soldiers who fight shoulder to shoulder with me in the battle for survival’.
1973 Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. VII. 396Besides the Ossewa-Brandwag, and associated with it by a common commanding officer in the person of the Commandant-General, there developed a smaller and more activist organisation of youthful adventurers known as the Stormjaers (‘Storm troops’).
1976 E. Prov. Herald 1 Dec. 9Under Van Rensburg, a former UDF brigadier and Administrator of the Free State, it became dangerous, its Stormjaers prepared to sabotage, kill and steal in order to gain their objective.
1977 T.R.H. Davenport S. Afr.: Mod. Hist. 236The OB already had an elite body of Stormjaers whose potential danger to public security had led Smuts to order the general surrender of rifles.
1979 Daily Dispatch 21 Mar. 1An Ossewabrandwag general and leader of the organisation’s military wing, the Stormjaers.
1979 Sunday Times 28 Oct. 13Major Diedrick’s special squad..captured vital documents which gave a full list of all members of the OB’s military ‘Stormjaer’ wing and their plans to take over the country.
1989 Weekend Post 28 Oct. 2The hard core of the Ossewa Brandwag — the anti-Semitic Stormjaers modelled on the Nazi stormtroopers.
Usually in the plural :Dumplings fried in fat, or baked in the embers of a fire, made often by travellers as a substitute for bread.
Usually with initial capital.A member of the military wing of the Ossewa Brandwag (see OB noun1). Frequently used collectively in the plural. Also attributive.
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