| IDIOOM: 'n Ou Karnallie [boodskap #14254] |
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Idioom: 'n karnallie
Ek vertrou hom nie. Hy is 'n ou karnallie.
(I do not trust him. He is a rascal.)
The word "karnallie" has an alternate
form "kanalie." This is one of the names
of the fiscal shrike or butcherbird. (From
Dutch "kanalje" from French "canaille"
from Latin "canis" dog. ) The name more
frequently used in South Africa for the
fiscal shrike or butcherbird is "Jan Fiskaal."
The bird stores it prey of small lizards etc.
by impaling them on a thorn bush or a
barbed wire fence. The word "fiskaal"
was borrowed from the name for Cape
Town's chief of police during the regime
of the Dutch at the Cape. The word
"laksman" (Dutch for "hangman") is also
sometimes used to describe the bird.
Gloudina Bouwer
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