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  • They say that it is from the Dutch word donder (= thunder).

    Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 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.

    IOL: News 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.

    Outbreak of Clerical Common Sense 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.

    Archive 2008-01-27 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.

    Whistling In The Ether 2007

  • 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.

    Archive 2007-10-14 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.

    Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer! 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."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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  • Thunder.

    June 6, 2008