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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors.
Noun
[edit]boerewors (countable and uncountable, plural boerewors)
- (South Africa) A traditional homemade sausage, now commercially available.
- The Boerewors recipe given here is for the basic, original boerewors, with suggestions as to how you can ring the changes.(Afri Chef: Boerewors: Farmers Sausage)
- 2010, Steven Raichlen, Planet Barbecue!, Workman Publishing, page 350:
- To make truly authentic boerewors you'll need a sausage stuffer and casings.
- 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.
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[edit]South African cuisine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From boer (“farmer”) + wors (“sausage”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]boerewors (plural boereworse)
- A traditional homemade sausage, now commercially available.
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