All 7 Uses of
Boer
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- —Up the Boers!†
Chpt 8 *
- Dirty Dan the dodger's son off Island bridge that sold the same horses twice over to the government to fight the Boers.†
Chpt 12
- Up the Boers!†
Chpt 15
- Let them go and fight the Boers!†
Chpt 15
- The Boers were the beginning of the end.†
Chpt 16
- He changed his name to De Wet, the Boer general.†
Chpt 16
- …be got in that Gibraltar only that cheap peau dEspagne that faded and left a stink on you more than anything else I wanted to give him a memento he gave me that clumsy Claddagh ring for luck that I gave Gardner going to south Africa where those Boers killed him with their war and fever but they were well beaten all the same as if it brought its bad luck with it like an opal or pearl still it must have been pure 18 carrot gold because it was very heavy but what could you get in a place…†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(Boer) used most in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to refer to white South African settlers -- especially Dutch; today typically called an Afrikaner