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De Boer is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "the farmer". ... Hans de Boer (born 1937), Dutch politician and State Secretary; Harry DeBoer (1903–1992), ...
The name of the group is derived from Trekboer then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans. [ 4 ] In addition, the term Boeren also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to colonise the Orange Free State , and the Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal .
By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour"—hence "churlish" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of "country person" or "farmer" is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and German Bauer, although the latter has its own pejorative connotations such as ...
The Protestant work ethic, the Calvinist work ethic [5] or the Puritan work ethic [a] [6] is a work ethic concept in theology, sociology, economics, and history that emphasizes that hard work, discipline and frugality [7] are a result of a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism.
Boer (meaning "farmer") is the common name for Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans descended from the Dutch East India Company's original settlers at the Cape of Good Hope. Among some South Africans, it is known as the (Second) Anglo–Boer War.
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This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
The Trekboers were seminomadic pastoralists, subsistence farmers who began trekking both northwards and eastwards into the interior to find better pastures/farmlands for their livestock to graze, as well as to escape the autocratic rule of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC), which administered the Cape.