Crossword-Solution: HOTTENTOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hottentot | n. | One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. |
| Hottentot | n. | The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “HOTTENTOT”
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| Bushman's relative. | 1 answer |
| perennial plant with fleshy leaves, showy yellow or purple flowers, and edible fruits | 1 answer |
| Relative of the Bushmen. | 1 answer |
| Namibia native | 1 answer |
| Khoisan | 1 answer |
| Khoikhoi, to the Dutch | 1 answer |
| Cape Province native of old | 1 answer |
| BUSHMEN-like language (Afr.) | 1 answer |
| Nama | 2 answers |
| Namaqua | 2 answers |
| AFRICAN pastoralists | 3 answers |
| SOUTH African pastoralists | 3 answers |
| Southern African | 4 answers |
| South African | 6 answers |
| African native | 12 answers |
| SOUTH African inhabitant(s) | 34 answers |
| Negroid | 36 answers |
| Negro | 47 answers |
| AFRICAN inhabitant(s) | 54 answers |
| African | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HOTTENTOT (5)
His dinner, set on the dresser, was flung contemptuously on the ashes; a horrible cloud of burning grease rushed from a dirty pint-pot on the table, and before this Joel was capering and snorting like some red-headed Hottentot before his fetich, occasionally sticking his fingers into the nauseous stuff, and snuffing it up as if it were roses.
The bottles of brandy and of liquors passed from hand to hand, and all sat back in their chairs, taking repeated sips from their glasses, and scarcely removing the long, bent stems, which terminated in china bowls painted in a manner to delight a Hottentot, from their mouths.
Blumenbach and others of the earlier travelers found that the apron-like appearance of the genitals of the Hottentot women was due to abnormal hypertrophy of the labia and nymphae.
First we came to Hottentot’s Holland (now called Somerset West), the loveliest little old Dutch village, with trees and little canals of bright clear mountain water, and groves of orange and pomegranate, and white houses, with incredible gable ends.
These, from their regular form and position, reminded me of the drawings of the Hottentot habitations in Southern Africa.
Quotes with HOTTENTOT (2)
Scarlett, I don't know just when it was that the bleak realization came over me that my own private shadow show was over. Perhaps in the first five minutes at Bull Run when I saw the first man I killed drop to the ground. But I knew it was over and I could no longer be a spectator. No, I suddenly found myself on the curtain, an actor, posturing and making futile gestures. My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were…
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1962–2010).