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Hotnot S. Afr.|ˈhɒtnɒt|
An abbreviated pejorative form of Hottentot.
1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 217 Hotnot, a common Dutch pronunciation of Hottentot. 1939J. S. Marais Cape Coloured People i. 31 The ‘colloquial Afrikaans’ for Coloured People is not, as Professor Macmillan thinks,..‘Hotnots’— at any rate in the western Cape—but ‘bruin mense’. ‘Hotnot’ is a term of contempt. 1949Cape Times 8 July 8 His uncouth remarks about ‘Hotnots, Coolies and Kafirs’. 1956A. Sampson Drum xv. 201 They joked and laughed about apartheid, and about being mistaken for white men, and being called bushmen, hotnots, coolies, with compulsory wounding laughter. 1966A. Sachs Jail Diary xvi. 133 That was my Grandfather's place..before the British took it away, and he even allowed a few Hotnots to sleep in the house. |