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drywors

drywors is the alternative form of droewors.

Meaning of droewors

Noun

droewors (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa) A kind of dried sausage similar to boerewors.

Forms of drywors

alternative formdry wors

Origin of drywors

From dry + wors, a calque of Afrikaans droëwors.

Questions about drywors

What is drywors the alternative form of?
Drywors is the alternative form of droewors.

Words near drywors in the dictionary

  1. dryweight
  2. dryweights
  3. drywell
  4. drywells
  5. drywipe
  6. drywors
  7. Drzewiecki
  8. Drzewieckis
  9. Drzymala
  10. Drzymalas
  11. Drzymalla

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drywors (page history and authors); droewors (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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