Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Khoikhoi person.
- noun Any of the Khoisan languages of the Khoikhoi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a race of South Africa, which differs from the other South African races, being of a dark yellowish-brown complexion, of smaller stature, of more ungainly build, and of inferior mental endowment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.
- noun The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the
Khoisan language. - noun (Bot.) a South African plant of the genus Cassine (
Cassine maurocenia ), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. - noun (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under
Elephant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A member of the
Khoekhoe group of peoples. - proper noun The language of the Khoi, remarkable for its clicks.
- proper noun Any of several fish of the genus Pachymetopon, in the family
Sparidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Or the process may be used to derive verbs from nouns, as in Hottentot khoe-khoe to talk Hottentot (from khoe-b man, Hottentot), or as in Kwakiutl metmat to eat clams (radical element met - clam).
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She obtained permission to go… and soon was a sideshow attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
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“And I am to conclude,” Hancock broke in, “that a Hottentot is as good as a white man?”
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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“And I am to conclude,” Hancock broke in, “that a Hottentot is as good as a white man?”
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Sarah Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was paraded naked as a sexual freak in Britain and France in the 1800s.
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Bartmann, the so-called Hottentot Venus who was paraded naked as
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One of the most notorious manifestations of this racism was the use and abuse of so-called Hottentot women such as Sarah Bartmann, whom science and medicine identified as the essence of black female sexuality.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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One of the most notorious manifestations of this racism was the use and abuse of so-called Hottentot women such as Sarah Bartmann, whom science and medicine identified as the essence of black female sexuality.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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It began 300 years ago, when the brown men of the Cape - the Nama who were called Hottentot and the Khoi who were called Bushmen - fought the white invaders with bows, arrows and spears.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 Ray Esther 1969
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It began 300 years ago, when the brown men of the Cape - the Nama who were called Hottentot and the Khoi who were called Bushmen - fought the white invaders with bows, arrows and spears.
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