English Explanatory Dictionary

kaffirgram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Mail carried by native runners, smuggled out of the siege of Mafeking during the Boer War.

Word forms

kaffirgram kaffirgrams

Etymology

From kaffir + -gram.

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