单词 | sommer |
释义 | sommeradv. South African colloquial. Just, simply, for no specific reason, without further ado. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > simply, only, or merely butOE onlya1325 alone?c1335 purelya1375 alonelya1400 nobbuta1400 simplya1400 plain1535 barely1577 merelyc1580 purea1616 singly1655 just1668 sommer1835 maara1931 1835 T. Bowker Jrnl. 12 May (MS.) Bowkers party gone out on patrole somer heard from the third Division, they have been shooting some Kafirs, & taking Cattle & Goats. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ii. 27 The Dutch word ‘somar’..is also a word to which I think I could challenge the most learned schoolmaster in the colony to attach any definite meaning. It is used by both Boers and Hottentots in almost every sentence. 1920 S. Black Dorp 174 ‘Ach, Oom Kaspar, can't I go back to look for my pipe and put it somaar in the box?’ ‘Nay, kerel, they won't let you go again inside the ballot-box.’ 1959 Cape Times 15 Aug. (Weekend Mag.) 10/6 Too dangerous to sommer leave it like that with a child about the place. 1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 15 Sannie who? Sommer Sannie Somebody. 1975 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 13 June 12 My father was a trader, who sold both blankets and ochre, and to my question as to why the tribesmen didn't sommer buy red blankets instead of going through all the trouble of dyeing white blankets with ochre, he replied that this was for hygienic reasons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1835 |
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