boerewors

English

Raw boerewors

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors.

Noun

boerewors (countable and uncountable, plural boerewors)

1. (South Africa) A traditional homemade sausage made with spiced minced meat, now commercially available.

   The Boerewors recipe given here is for the basic, original boerewors, with suggestions as to how you can ring the changes.

   (Afri Chef: Boerewors: Farmers Sausage)

   • 2010, Steven Raichlen, Planet Barbecue!, Workman Publishing, page 350:

     To make truly authentic boerewors you'll need a sausage stuffer and casings.

   • 2016, Michael Reid, M: A 24 Hour Cookbook‎^[1], Bloomsbury Publishing (Absolute Press), page 175:

     In the halcyon^[sic] of sausages, if there were such a thing, boerewors would likely be crown prince.

   • 2019, Gregory Mthembu-Salter, Wanted Dead and Alive: The Case for South Africa's Cattle, Cover2Cover (face2face), page 48,

     The poet Antjie Krog has written evocatively about boerewors as the physical manifestation of a well-run farm, with the patriarch and his men raising and providing good-quality meat and the matriarch, armed with a prized, secret family recipe, organising her kitchen staff into the production line required to make the perfect wors.

Related terms

• boerie
• droewors
• wors

Further reading

• boerewors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• borrowees

Afrikaans

Etymology

From boer (“farmer”) +‎ wors (“sausage”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

boerewors (plural boereworse)

1. A traditional homemade sausage, now commercially available.