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Boer(dictionary)

hollow (iou) and Boer (oh)


hollow (iou)



hollow verb1. LME.
[from the adjective.]
verb trans. Make hollow or concave; form or bend into a hollow or concave shape. Also foll. by out. LME.
V. Woolf The breeze blew out her match. Giles hollowed his hand and lit another. J. M. Coetzee The bowls we ate..from were crude blocks of wood hollowed out by scraping and burning.
verb trans. Form by making a hollow. Freq. foll. by out. M17.
M. Meyer A huge natural cave hollowed into the rock.
verb intrans. Become hollow or concave. M19.
K. Ishiguro Kuroda's face..had hollowed out around the cheekbones.

Boer (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Afrikaans; Origin: Dutch boer 'farmer']
a white South African whose family is related to the Dutch people who settled in South Africa in the 1600s
-see also Afrikaner Afrikaner