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Caffre

Definition: Caffre

Caffre

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 "caffre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Caffre

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

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Crosswords: Caffre

Specialty definitions using "caffre": Caffre cat. (references)

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Expression: Caffre

Expression using "caffre": Caffre cat. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Caffre

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

French

  

Chat ganté (African Kaffir cat, Caffre cat, fettered cat), Chat de Cafrerie (African Kaffir cat, Caffre cat, fettered cat), chat de Caffrerie (African Kaffir cat, Caffre cat, fettered cat), chat caffre (African Kaffir cat, Caffre cat, fettered cat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affrecay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Caffre

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: Caffre


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

43 61 66 66 72 65

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 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0066 0066 0072 0065

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

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

376772728471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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