v. Milit. slang. [f. Stellenbosch, a town and a division of Cape Colony.] (See quot. 1913.)
1900. Kipling, in Daily Express, 16 June, 4/6. ‘After all,’ said one cheerily … ‘what does it matter, old man? You’re bound to be Stellenbosched in three days.
1900. Daily Tel., 2 Oct., 6/1. I heard … that he had been ‘Stellenbosched.’… I must inform the uninitiated that Stellenbosch … was formerly the place selected for command by officers who had failed in Kaffir wars; and to be ‘Stellenbosched’ is the equivalent of being superseded without formal disgrace. Ibid. (1900), 20 Oct., 7/1. It is a gross injustice to Stellenbosch any doctor because some nurse does not get her own way, and has influence in high quarters.
1913. C. Pettman, Africanderisms, 475. Stellenboshed [sic]. To be, to be relegated, as the result of incompetence, to a position in which little harm can be done.
