v. S. African slang. Also vinook. [ad. Cape Du. verneuken (also in W. Flem., with variant vernukken).] trans. To cheat, humbug, swindle.
1871. Cape Monthly Mag., III. 46 (Pettman). How Hendrick enjoyed verneuking the Boer.
1905. D. Blackburn, R. Hartley, Prospector, xiii. So you have verneuked me?
1909. R. Cullum, Compact, xviii. 213. He has vinooked the Kaffir chiefs into granting large concessions.
Hence Verneuker. Also Verneukering vbl. sb., Verneukery [a. Cape Du. verneukerie.]
1896. in Westm. Gaz., 4 July, 8/1. But we women of South Africa despise such maudlin verneukery.
1900. Sir J. Robinson, Life Time S. Africa, vii. 185. Hence arose the practice of ‘verneukering’—by which buyer and seller each sought to get the better of the other.
1905. D. Blackburn, R. Hartley, xiii. Do you take me for a Boer verneuker?
