boerewors

English

Raw boerewors

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors.

Noun

boerewors (countable and uncountable, plural boerewors)

1. (South Africa) A traditional homemade sausage, 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

• South African cuisine 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.