donner
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.
Base: don
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: donners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: donnering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: donnered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: donnered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: donners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To beat up; clobber; thrash.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
slang
examples: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee / When he fights Willie Liebenberg / There's gonna be a murder / 'Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerrie yankee
They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
gloss: One who dons (something).
pos: noun
examples: O sweet little wearers of round hats. O dainty donners of Mauve silks and sprigged muslins—I hear a voice saying—there was a time when all the ladies of Rome, with perfumes and fans, went daily to the Colosseum to see gigantic slaves chop each other to pieces; […]
“Gathered in circle, / With clangour of armour, / Our youth struck the mighty / Donners of armlets: / Limbs dead and bloody / Glutted the death-birds. / Who shall avenge now / The mighty belt-wearer?”
Tony Rossitto, grand opera tenor, who is in the ranks at Camp Sherman, is spending the week here and has been permitted to sing at the barracks and Broadway Theater. He is beiing^([sic]) billed about the town as “The Soldier Caruso From Camp Sherman” and “The Fighter With the Golden Throat.” Mr. Rossitto was formerly a member of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His beautiful tenor has won many friends for him both among his fellow donners of khaki and those civilians who have heard him.
Seven recruits were accepted by the United States army at the Transportation building Wednesday. Of the seven new donners of the khaki, six were old service men.
“Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.”
Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.
Way and Brinton, football player and student respectively, donners of African costumes, and ministers in the making were real friends, and examples of demeanor.
The season 1944-45 saw the donners of the purple and gold of Loras take seven out of eight conference games . . .
For the first few weeks the rush of voluntary donners of white were mostly in the Fourth Region of the North American Continent.
Honest and veteran Congressmen who have grown grey in the service of the country very often find themselves pushed aside by these new donners of the white cap.
A donner of casual clothes, this fun loving gal enjoys swimming, skating, and dancing.
“Donners of black” float by this “very cool” Lower East Side bar for its “hip” vibe and “awesome DJ”; […]
Rock of the world, raise the lofty house of Aaron, the donners of the Urim and Thumin [breastplate worn by the high priest of the biblical temple], they serve you in holiness.
COAL TRAIN: Marching band wieners. Tuba lards. Flautists. Triangle dingers. Auto-harp toters. Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.
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