Hottentotism

English

Etymology

Hottentot +‎ -ism

Noun

Hottentotism (plural Hottentotisms)

  1. A word or phrase adopted from the Hottentot language.
    Hottentotisms in Afrikaans
  2. (dated) A kind of stammer in which the words become unintelligible.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Hottentotism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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