brandsiek, adjective
- Origin:
- Afrikaans.
Pathology
Suffering from scab; brandsick adjective.
1948 H.C. Bosman in L. Abrahams Unto Dust (1963) 28‘You never saw such a lot of brand-siek sheep in your life’, the predikant was saying, ‘as what Chris Haasbroek brought along as tithe’.
1970 H.M. Musmeci Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeThat poor horse is very brandsiek.
Suffering from scab; brandsick adjective.
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