Contextualizebeta

kaffirgram

noun

Etymology

From kaffir + -gram.

  1. borrowed from kaffer
  2. borrowed from cafre
  3. derived from كَفَّار
  4. suffixed as kaffirgram — “kaffir + gram”

Definitions

  1. Mail carried by native runners, smuggled out of the siege of Mafeking during the Boer War.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kaffirgram. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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