Zarpn.
/zɑːp/, U.S. /zɑrp/, South African English /zɑːp/ South African. Now Historical.
An appellation for a member of the Boer police force in the pre-1902 South African Republic; a Boer constable.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > in specific country
quarterman1573
lascarine1598
peon1609
sbirro1670
exempt1678
kavass1819
ghaffir1831
Texas Ranger1846
carabiniere1847
zaptieh1869
Zarp1895
flic1899
kiap1923
Schupo1923
guard1925
provincial1936
Garda1943
Vopo1954
1895 Standard & Diggers News (Johannesburg) 23 Nov. 21 The Zarp produces his latest capture. Jan, an Ethiop, is a vagrant who resisted Zarpine authority, and even attempted to test the Zarpine probity by the bribe of a six-pence.
Derivatives
Thesaurus »
Categories »
Zarpine adj. of or belonging to the ‘Zarps’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1895