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noun
informal South African1A brother. Also prefixed to a man's first name as an informal title.
2As a familiar form of address: mate, pal.
Origin
1920s. From Afrikaans boet brother, comrade from Dutch regional (Zeeland and West Flemish) boet boy, youth, probably a hypocoristic form of broeder.
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