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Hottentotisms

Hottentotisms is the plural of Hottentotism.

Meaning of Hottentotism

Noun

Hottentotism (plural Hottentotisms)

  1. A word or phrase adopted from the Hottentot language.
    • Hottentotisms in Afrikaans
  2. (dated) A kind of stammer in which the words become unintelligible.

Questions about Hottentotisms

What is Hottentotisms the plural of?
Hottentotisms is the plural of Hottentotism.

Words near Hottentotisms in the dictionary

  1. Hottentot's poison bush
  2. Hottentotese
  3. Hottentotic
  4. Hottentotish
  5. Hottentotism
  6. Hottentotisms
  7. Hottentots
  8. hotteok
  9. hotteoks
  10. hotter
  11. hotter than a pistol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hottentotisms (page history and authors); Hottentotism (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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