Definitions

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  • noun South Africa, slang boerewors, a traditional home-made sausage, now commercially available.

Etymologies

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From Afrikaans boerewors, from German wurst ("sausage").

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Examples

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    Arab Times Kuwait English Daily SuperUser Account 2010

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    Arab Times Kuwait English Daily SuperUser Account 2010

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    iac world news feed 2010

  • Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to wors

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to wors

    Boing Boing 2009

  • They only ended the filibuster because imagration is a wors topic for Democrats.

    Senate agrees to begin debate on Wall Street reform 2010

  • Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to wors

    Boing Boing 2010

  • The division grew wors e during the 20th century when Belgium suffered two brutal German occupations and Flemish-Belgians were accused of being less anti-German.

    The Mastery of Georges Simenon 2010

  • Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to wors

    Boing Boing 2010

  • The Obama tax plan may have cut payroll taxes and kept rates in check for the wealthy, but by eliminating Making Work Pay tax credits it seems to have left many lower-income households wors e off.

    Fissures Open in Fortunes of 'the Consumer' Kelly Evans 2011

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