Juffrou
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[edit]Juffrou
- (South Africa) Miss; form of address for an unmarried woman
- 1926, Howard Millar Chapin, Rhode Island Privateers in King George's War, 1739-1748, page 107:
- The Prince Frederick drew alongside the Juffrou Sara and threatened to fire on her, whereupon Captain Huijblings struck his colors. The Prince Frederick sent the Juffrou Sara to Newport, where she arrived in August.
- 2011, Bruce Courtenay, Whitethorn, page 189:
- A new teacher, Juffrou Janneke Phillips, who Meneer Van Niekerk, the headmaster, said was 'only temporary' and was a practice teacher from Johannesburg, came to take our class. She was very pretty and looked quite young […]