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third-person singular simple present moers, present participle moering, simple past and past participle moered
(South Africa, transitive) To beat; to thrash. examples
plural moers
(South Africa) Something big or powerful; a whopper; a hell of a thing. quotations examples
Lying dead on the surface of the Monument dam was a moer of a big carp.
2003, Justin Nurse, Chris Verrijdt, Laugh it Off Annual: South African Youth Culture (volume 1, page 71)
“Some of the teams are coming in,” he said. “They had a moer of a contact. Get your cameras and let's go.”
2013, Jim Hooper, Koevoet: Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War, page 239