Kaffir

Definition of kaffir:

part of speech: noun

One of a native race of S. E. Africa.

Usage examples for kaffir:

• Look here, sir, said the officer sternly; I don't want to treat you like a Kaffir unless you behave like one. "A Dash from Diamond City", George Manville Fenn.

• I know the ways of the Kaffir as no Englishman does. "Greenmantle", John Buchan.

• My assistant was a Kaffir lad named Toby, whose memory is kept green, so far as I am concerned, by his enormous lips. "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer", W. C. Scully.

• But I know my kaffir and I sized up this black Englishman instantly. "My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War", Ben Viljoen.