Caffer

  

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Caffer

Definition: Caffer

Caffer

Noun

1. (South Africa) an offensive term for any Black African.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caffer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

"Caffer" is a common misspelling or typo for: cafe, chafer, coffer.

Synonyms: Caffer

Synonyms: caffre (n), kaffir (n), kafir (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Caffer

English words defined with "caffer": caffer catEncephalartos cafferJumping deerSynercus caffer. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Caffer

Photos:
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Expressions: Caffer

Expressions using "caffer": B Caffer Bubalus Caffer caffer cat Encephalartos caffer Pedetes Caffer Syncerus Caffer Synercus caffer. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Caffer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

caffer

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Caffer

Language Translations for "caffer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

affercay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Caffer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-r"

-1 letter: facer, farce.

-2 letters: acre, cafe, caff, care, face, fare, fear, frae, race, raff.

-3 letters: ace, aff, arc, are, arf, car, ear, eff, era, far, fer, rec, ref.

-4 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-f-r"
 

+1 letter: chaffer, effacer.

 

+2 letters: affecter, chaffers, chaffier, chauffer, effacers, foreface, sclaffer.

 

+3 letters: affecters, affricate, chaffered, chafferer, chauffers, chauffeur, cofferdam, creampuff, forefaces, rechauffe, sclaffers.

 

+4 letters: affirmance, affricates, chafferers, chaffering, chauffeurs, cofferdams, creampuffs, diffracted, farfetched, rechauffes, sufferance, trafficked, trafficker.

 

+5 letters: affirmances, affricative, aftereffect, chauffeured, cliffhanger, coffeemaker, officiaries, sufferances, trafficable, traffickers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Caffer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 66 66 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    ..-.    ..-.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0066 0066 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376772727184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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