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Kaffir

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kaffir or kaffir corn: see sorghum sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae ( grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes.
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Kaffir, Kafir
1. a former name for the Xhosa language
2. Offensive (among Muslims) a non-Muslim or infidel


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The White Man called a council of his Kaffir servants.
Macalister was in the Kaffir market and often told them stories of the sudden fortunes that had been made in the great boom of a year or two back.
I was wrong, and I crept upon a Kaffir on all fours.
 
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