English

Etymology
From Dutch #Dutch|handlanger "assistant", "helper".

Noun
handlanger

1. (South African) An unskilled assistant to an artisan.

#*1976 Het Suid Western "...building himself brick by brick, with his wife as his only handlanger".
#*2005 The SABC launches a new reality show: The Handlanger. The series will follow a group of aspirant gophers as they compete to become the handlanger of fertilizer tycoon Danie Tromp, writes Not the M&G television watcher.
http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2005/2005jan/050107-not-the-tv-2.html

Translations
trans-top|An unskilled assistant to an artisan
German: Handlanger m
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References
1978: A Dictionary of South African English edited by Jean Branford. Oxford.

Category:South African English

Dutch

Noun
handlanger m

1. accomplice
2. assistant; helper

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