Donder

They say that it is from the Dutch word donder (= thunder). ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

He dismissed as "nonsense and a lot of hot air" statements allegedly attributed to AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, in which he threatened to "donder" anyone who touched a rightwinger. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Mr Xaba alleged the policeman, whose name was not revealed to the Commission, had threatened to "donder" him if he did not change his statement. ❋ Unknown (1992)

In other words, it is impossible for a Springbok team to not want to "donder" anything in a white shirt with a red rose on its chest, and Bakkies will happily lead the charge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now some police forces are having to wage something akin to a war of attrition from six in the evening to six in the morning as this or that hostelry or night club pours its customers out onto the pavement where they then set about trying to donder someone they do not like the look of. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Huntsman, having a bevy of family and friends across South Africa, has been inundated with a series of emails bearing the latest joke about how England cannot find the try line and the latest graphic telling us that The Springboks are going to donder us good and proper tonight. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The sentence serves as a warning to the existing fragments of rightwing elements and other criminals elsewhere who think that there is place for a skop, skiet and donder attitude in this country." ❋ Unknown (2000)

"The ` skop and donder 'style of management will not assist the current state of affairs but add to the anger and frustration," he said. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Pass me -- oh, donder and blitzen, what shall I say? ❋ Unknown (1905)

For the hulking dief was standing, voor den donder! standing as he emptied his magazine, and the bullets sang about Father Noah as viciously as hornets roused to anger by the stripping of a decayed thatch. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Inception, for all its glittering inventiveness, still bears the hallmarks of a lekker skop-skiet-en-donder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still, his name is where we get the name of thunder from (the proto-Germanic word * thunaraz gave rise to Old Norse þorr, German donner, Dutch donder as well as Old English þunor which turned into thunder). ❋ Legal Eagle (2010)

"The mentality of skop, skiet en donder '(literally" kick, shoot and thunder "in Afrikaans) is not part of the new dispensation," he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He said he would donder us, and told us and everyone standing around that we were selling "communist Bibles", which I'm sure the Bible Society would be pleased to hear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

hokay, we gotz danzers, we could use a few moar pransirs, ,needs sum donder heds adn blintzes, got lots ob cometns still hab a few cupids ,and prolly a few vixens but dey tend to go awf in teh nawtee barn ❋ Unknown (2008)

National Congress] government but by a previous government under the theme of "skop, skiet en donder" [kick, shoot and pummel] in 1936. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Control Act, but it doesn't mean that the one we are replacing it with, must be done on a ` skop, skiet and donder 'basis, "he said. ❋ Unknown (2002)