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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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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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Boer

(Dutch: "husbandman," or "farmer"), a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Today, descendants of the Boers are commonly referred to as Afrikaners

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