kaffir

Examples

• All

• And then he says, "A kaffir's ass. "

  Master Harold... and the Boys (2010)

• But you, kaffir, Hitler comes or goes...

  Fiction book (1992)

• Take that hand off my face, kaffir -

  The Wild Geese (1978)

• What are you up to, you fucking kaffir?

  The Forgiven (2018)

• You should take the kaffirs down a peg.

  The Forgiven (2018)

• Killed the kaffirs because I chose to.

  The Forgiven (2018)

• All right, get out, kaffirs.

  Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

• That's an improvement over kaffir -

  The Wild Geese (1978)

• You have an hour to curfew and a long way to go, kaffir.

  Fiction book (1992)

• During the meeting, he used the term kaffir, which caused an immediate backlash due to its offensive nature.

Compounds

K

kaffir boom

• Archaic

9.9

A small tree from South Africa with bright orange flowers and red seeds

K

kaffir bread

• Archaic

9.9

A South African plant whose thick starchy centre people eat

K

kaffir corn

• Archaic

9.7

A tall grain plant like corn grown for food and animal feed

K

Kaffir pox

• Slur

9.9

A mild kind of smallpox that causes less severe symptoms and appears in old reports from southern Africa

Surface Forms

Etymology