skepseln.

1844 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Mauritius & S. Afr. xxxiv. 620 The coloured, who are generally styled Heathens, Schepsels, Creatures.

1899 B. Mitford Weird of Deadly Hollow 125 Your baas? Confound you, it's my buck. Leave it alone, you schepsel.

1920 R. Y. Stormberg Mrs. Pieter de Bruyn 96 Swartz was called a Hottentot, a Shangaan, a skepsel and a few other elegant compliments, and being a full-blooded and very proud Basuto his eyes rolled at the insult.

1943 J. Burger Black Man's Burden 67 The Boer farmer treats his workers in a kindly and tolerant fashion; he does not refer to them as ‘bloody niggers’, but as skepsels.

1951 P. H. Abrahams Wild Conquest I. i. ii. 48 All they are going to do is to stop working for us. So that skepsel Johannes says.

1953 M. Murray Fire-raisers xiv. 131 How can we bring up our children decently when there are skepsels like that about?

1968 K. L. McMagh Dinner of Herbs 32 You know how the volk love meat and don't mind where it comes from. Poor skepsels!

1975 W. M. MacMillan My S. Afr. Years 143 There was I remember one terrible case of a horrible old rascal who sold his step-daughter to a Hottentot. I remember that the schepsel was soundly punished.