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boerewors

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A type of sausage, usually flavoured with coriander seed, black pepper, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: South-Africa, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 2019, Gregory Mthembu-Salter, Wanted Dead and Alive: The Case for South Africa's Cattle, Cover2Cover (face2face), page 48, The poet Antjie Krog has written evocatively about boerewors as the physical manifestation of a well-run farm, with the patriarch and his men raising and providing good-quality meat and the matriarch, armed with a prized, secret family recipe, organising her kitchen staff into the production line required to make the perfect wors.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boerie, wors

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors.