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Kafir

noun
1.
An offensive and insulting term for any Black African.  Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kaffir.
2.
A member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan.



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"Kafir" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the white man, with all his science and all his so-called Christianity, has only come among these three peoples mentioned (and how many more?) to destroy and defile them—to flog the mild and innocent native of the Amazons to death for greed of his rubber; to rob the Kafir of his free wild lands and blast his life with drink and slavery in the diamond mines; to degrade and exterminate the Pacific islanders with all the vices ...
— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter
... thought of Elandslaagte again and of Colonel Schiel and Dinizulu, the Kafir chief, and of the story the colonel had told, as they bivouacked round the fire, of the latter's royal anointment with castor-oil. They had made the fire with the covers of "Mellin's Food" boxes—Mellin's Food—a fine chap, Mellin—Mellin?— Wasn't that the name ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff


Words linked to "Kafir" :   kaffir, Black African, disparagement, depreciation, caffre, kafir corn, South Africa, Afghanistani, afghan, Republic of South Africa, caffer, derogation


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