hairyback

noun

Etymology

From hairy + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg- — “to bend
  2. inherited from *baką
  3. inherited from *bak
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as hairyback — “hairy + back

Definitions

  1. A gastrotrich.

  2. A white Afrikaner.

    • I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
    • A mistake which is often made by our South African militants is to assume that we are cleverer than the police, that we can out-manoeuvre the 'hairybacks' and the 'rock spiders'[…]
    • […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA