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Hottentot

NOUN
  1. any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa

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  • T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
  • Truly, they were more widely differentiated from the men under them than were the men under them differentiated from Hottentots -- ay, and from monkeys. CHAPTER III
  • Hottentot women the extraordinary prolongation of the nymphae which is often called "the Hottentot apron" or _tablier_. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • We could have cities of wood to be wiped out by conflagrations; we could build houses of mud and sticks for the gales to unroof like a Hottentot village. The Iron Puddler
  • The city is a rare cultural gem, resulting from the amalgamation of Idonesian, French, Dutch, British and German settlers, the local Bushman and Hottentot tribes and the Bantu tribes from the north.
  • Africa, of her desire to be a nurse, he had pieced together an effigy of the combined traits of a Hottentot and a vivandiere. On the Firing Line
  • _names_ of Hottentot gods, we are all the luckier, that is, if his processes and inferences are _logical_. Modern Mythology
  • According to John Knott, the French traveler, Le Vaillant, said that the more coquettish among the Hottentot girls are excited by extreme vanity to practice artificial elongation of the nympha and labia. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Thank you … Khoikhoi is another word for hottentots and it means “real people.” Think Progress » Democratic Offices Vandalized In Days Surrounding Health Care Vote
  • The Bushman retains the ancient arms of the Hottentot race, namely, a javelin or assagai, similar to that of the Caffres, and a bow and arrows. The Illustrated London Reading Book
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