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Boer

  [bawr, bohr, boor; Du. boor]
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–noun
1. a South African of Dutch extraction.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to the Boers.
Origin:
1825–35; < Afrik < D: peasant, farmer. See boor
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Boer   (bōr, bôr, bŏŏr)   
n.  A Dutch colonist or descendant of a Dutch colonist in South Africa.

[Afrikaans, from Dutch, farmer, from Middle Dutch gheboer, peasant; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]
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Boers [(bohrz, bawrz, boorz)]

Dutch settlers in South Africa, also known as Afrikaners. The Boers were repeatedly driven further inland by British settlers; the British finally defeated them in the Boer War of 1899–1902. Boer is Dutch for “farmer.”

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Word Origin & History

Boer 
"Du. colonist in S.Africa," 1824, from Du. boer "farmer," from M.Du., cognate with O.E. gebur "dweller, farmer, peasant," and thus related to bower and the final syllable of neighbor (see boor).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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