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Afriˈcander, Afriˈkander
Also Africaander, Afrikaander.
[see Afrikaner.]
1. = Afrikaner 1. obsolescent.
1822W. J. Burchell Trav. I. 21 All those who are born in the colony speak that language [sc. Dutch], and call themselves Africaanders, whether of Dutch, German, or French origin. 1834C. Gd. Hope Lit. Gaz. IV. 103 (Pettman), The number of matches that have taken place between the fair Africanders. 1882De Patriot (Cape Colony) in Encycl. Brit. (1902) XXVI. 568/2 The Afrikander Bond has for its object the establishment of a South African Nationality by spreading a true love for what is really our fatherland. 1884Q. Rev. July 150 The Africanders would hoist their own flag. Ibid., An Africander republic. 1899W. J. Knox-Little Sk. & Stud. S. Afr. i. iv. 92 The Dutch Afrikander is wanting in this quality. The English Afrikander too suffers. 1900A. H. Keane Boer States viii. 161 Any African-born white person, whether of Dutch, English, or German origin, is an Afrikander in the social, if not in the political, sense of the term. 1905[see Afrikanderize v. below]. 1939J. S. Marais Cape Coloured v. 163 The majority of the slaves were ‘Afrikaanders’, that is to say Colonial-born. 1957R. Campbell Portugal 104 The word Afrikander is often applied by Englishmen to the human inhabitants of South Africa, who are Afrikaners without the ‘d’.
2. A South African breed of cattle or sheep. Also attrib.
1852D'Urban Observer 9 Jan. 4/1 There are..three or four recognized breeds now common in the country, viz., the Fatherland, the Africanda, and the Zulu and Bastard Zulu. Ibid. 4/2 Zulu cows crossed by Fatherland and Africander bulls. 1868J. Chapman Trav. Int. S. Afr. I. viii. 174 Rather higher than an Africander ox, with immense horns. 1874F. Oates Jrnl. 6 Sept. in C. G. Oates Matabele Land (1881) iii. 48 Lee has just sold twelve red oxen—Africanders, with white faces. 1955J. H. Wellington S. Afr. II. v. 69 Non-woolled sheep..such as the Blackhead Persian, the Africander, [etc.].
3. Bot. = Afrikaner 3.
1870Cape Monthly Mag. Oct. 225 Yellow sorrel, pink ‘Africanders’, and the most lovely Magenta coloured wild ‘figs’. 1915R. Marloth Flora of S. Afr. IV. 157 G. [= Gladiolus] grandis..Often called the ‘large brown Afrikander’. 1959Cape Argus 15 Aug. 8/8 The blue afrikander (gladiolus recurvus..) is scenting the sandveld.
4. = Afrikaans. rare.
1886G. A. Farini Through Kalahari xxvi. 434 A little nigger..said in Afrikander, ‘That is Mr. Scott's..house.’ 1902G. M. G. Hunt (title) A Handy Vocabulary, English-Afrikander, Afrikander-English.
Hence Afriˈcanderdom = Afrikanerdom; Afriˈcanderism = Afrikanerism; Afriˈcanderize v. = Afrikanerize v.
1884Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Oct. 2/2 Shall we throw in our lot with Afrikanderism, abjuring our nationality for evermore? 1891Sat. Rev. 17 Jan. 59/2 The..apology for Afrikanderism which Sir Gordon Sprigg included in his speech on Imperial Federation. 1893Standard 21 Apr. 6/2 The sympathy of Africanderdom. 1899Daily News 16 Nov. 4/5 If South Africa was to be saved to the Empire, it would be by Afrikanderdom, and not by Downing-streetism. 1905Milner Let. 14 Apr. in C. Headlam Milner Papers (1933) II. 552 A separate Afrikander nation and State, comprising, no doubt, men of other races, who are ready to be ‘afrikanderized’. 1909State Dec. 701 If an English boy learns Dutch he is apt to acquire what are popularly called Dutchisms or Africanderisms. |