: a South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

Examples of Boer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Best Bit comes from the chef Clare de Boer, one of the co-owners of King, in Manhattan, and the founder of Stissing House, upstate. The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024 Under a white tent, another chef served a hearty birria, a stew made with the meat of Boer goats, like the ones eating hay just a few yards away. Carley Thornell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024 Gavin Boer, Manchester Valley, junior Boer was sixth at the county championships, the No. 2 runner on the Mavericks’ county championship team. Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024 The winter salad at the Italian restaurant Jupiter, opened last year in New York’s Rockefeller Center by the chefs Jess Shadbolt, 40, and Clare de Boer, 34, and the beverage director Annie Shi, 33, celebrates this homegrown bounty. Zoey Poll Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023 Vegetation on the Fletcher Hills hill has been kept in check in springtime by South African Boer goats. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023 Intending to visit again in 1890, strong feelings stirred by stories of the brutality of the Boer War led to a cancellation. Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023 Starting with the end of the Boer wars in 1902 and ending with the COVID-19 emergency, Simpson finely traces the political history of South Africa since the beginning of the twentieth century. Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023 The pilot program utilized three species of goats: the Boer, Angora and Spanish. Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Dutch, literally, farmer — more at boor

First Known Use

1776, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Boer was in 1776

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“Boer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boer. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

Boer

noun
: a South African usually of Dutch descent
Etymology

Dutch, literally, "farmer"

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