ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hairyback

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hairyback is a noun meaning A gastrotrich.

Meaning

A gastrotrich.

More Meanings

  1. (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.

Example Sentences

I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
A mistake which is often made by our South African militants is to assume that we are cleverer than the police, that we can out-manoeuvre the 'hairybacks' and the 'rock spiders'[…]

Word Forms

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