Boer-Brit, adjective

/bʊəˈbrɪt//buːrˈbrət/
Forms:
Also Boer/Brit.
Origin:
EnglishShow more Boer sense 3 + Brit abbreviation of English Briton; alluding to the protagonists in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902.
Of or pertaining to tension or antagonism between English- and Afrikaans-speakers in South Africa. See also Anglo-Boer War sense 2.
[1971 Grocott’s Mail 6 Sept. 3Kids are sick and tired of the old Boer and Brit politics.]
1973 Daily Dispatch 12 Mar. 10Such legacies of the Boer-Brit tensions as lack of respect for another man’s language and cultural traditions.
1984 R. Leaver in Frontline Mar. 39The new phenomenon..is striking an enormously healthy nail into the coffin of the old Boer/Brit split, and into the tradition of ethnic politics in South Africa.
1989 Evening Post 25 Jan. 2The ongoing correspondence..reveals a remarkable degree of intolerance among some English and Afrikaans speakers towards each other’s language...Will this Boer-Brit nonsense never die?
1990 Sunday Times 4 Mar. 14When Nelson Mandela flies to talks in Lusaka about the policy of a future ANC government, are the old Boer-Brit antagonisms now merely ancient history and irrelevant?
1991 Grocott’s Mail 10 Sept. 9I did so hope that with all the civic and social bridge-building we must attend to in our little valley we might at last have forgotten our hoary Boer/Brit hang-ups.
Of or pertaining to tension or antagonism between English- and Afrikaans-speakers in South Africa.
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