Citations:donner

Adjective: "(South Africa, slang) to beat up, clobber, thrash"

 * 1963 — Desmond Bagley, The Golden Keel, Doubleday & Company (1963), page 92:
 * "I'll donner him up," said Coertze grimly. "That's God's truth."
 * 1971 — Herman Charles Bosman, Cold Stone Jug, Human & Rousseau (1971), page 123:
 * "He's yellow," a young convict, an ex-reformatory boy, exclaimed, "Donner him, Slangvel."
 * 1974 — André Brink, Looking on Darkness, Andrew Morrow and Company, Inc (1974), page 137:
 * 'Just as well the other cars were all hooting at him to move on, else he'd probably have donnered me.'
 * 1994 — E. M. Macphail, Ugogo and Other Stories from South Africa, Hond (1994), ISBN 1874969116, page 50:
 * Man I can still remember how I used to get the hell donnered out of me by my dad even before I could explain, but no, their father always asked a whole lot of questions first.
 * 1996 — Tatamkulu Afrika, Tightrope: Four Novellas, Mayibuye Books (1996), ISBN 1868083071, page 93:
 * Once he donnered me up till I thought I was never going to come right again, but he cried about that, Martins, and he gave me respect, which I had never had before and have never had afterwards,
 * 2004 — Andre Brink, Before I Forget, Secker & Warburg (2004), ISBN 9780436205538:
 * 'Perhaps she has a boyfriend who donners her. You know what these coloreds are like,' suggested a colleague from another firm who used to look in regularly, when I mentioned it to him.
 * 2004 — Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier , Peguin (2004), ISBN 1594200165:
 * Man, I woke up and I was screaming and leaping around the bed and donnering that fan with a pillow and there were feathers flying everywhere and the ex was screaming at me.
 * 2005 — Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press (2005), ISBN 1770070931, page 167:
 * 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.
 * 2006 — Margie Orford, Like Clockwork, Oshun Books (2006), ISBN 1770070532, page 227:
 * 'When Clare? Fucking when? You're meant to be the miracle worker. What have I got? A description of what he might wear? A list of psychological problems that this poor mothefucker might have had. My mother donnered the shit out of me when I was a kid. Do you see me killing anybody?' Rediwaan turned away. Clare ignored the tears that spilled down his unshaven face.
 * 2007 — Ryland Fisher, Race, Jacana Life (2007), ISBN 9781770093737, page 62:
 * Eventually they came up really close - there were about five of them, all Afrikaners, Boere. They were looking at me and I thought I going to get donnered [clobbered] right there.
 * 2007 — Ndumiso Ngcobo, Some of My Best Friends Are White: Subversive Thoughts From an Urban Zulu Warrior, Two Dogs (2007), ISBN 9781920137182, page 164:
 * Hell, give the whole Esplanade-prostitute-donnering scene over to the car guards as well.
 * 2008 — Tracey Farren, Whiplash, Modjaji Books (2008), ISBN 9780980272925, page 132:
 * 'He always said sorry. He said it was from when he was a little boy, he bit Pa to try stop him donnering his Ma.'