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Kaffir

noun
1.
Important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves.  Synonyms: great millet, kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor.
2.
An offensive and insulting term for any Black African.  Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kafir.



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"Kaffir" Quotes from Famous Books



... closed Pavilion doors have kept Their silence while the white-eyed Kaffir slept, And wailed the Nightingale with 'Jug, jug, jug!' Whereat, for empty cup, the White ...
— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... the Trichardt Trek has already been told. The Trichardts found the Transvaal overrun by the warriors of Moselikatse, the King of the Matabele and father of Lobengula. The other tribes of the Transvaal were his "dogs," according to the Kaffir term. ...
— A Century of Wrong • F. W. Reitz

... receptacle contained a rough sort of sun-dried Kaffir tobacco, such as John and Martin had both smoked for the past ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... I thought that the hall also was deserted. I was wrong, and I crept upon a Kaffir on all fours. Poor devil, I could not bring myself to deal him a base blow, but I threatened him most hideously with my revolver, and left the white teeth chattering in his black head as I took the stairs three at a time. Why I went ...
— The Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... sat down upon a rude seat, improvised out of an empty gin-case. Without the tempest shrieked and howled, the great wind shook the Kaffir hut of grass and wattle, piercing it in a hundred places till the light of the lantern wavered within its glass, and the sick man's hair was lifted from his clammy brow. From time to time fierce squalls of rain fell like sheets of spray, and the water, penetrating the roof of grass, streamed ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard


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