Rooinek

Quick meaning: Rooinek is a noun meaning (South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.

Meaning

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.

Example Sentences

“Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”

I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.

That evening […] the other, quite frankly, said that these rooineks got her down, they were all the same, they thought they owned the earth they walked on.

Again and again the surprise was effected, not by the nation of hunters, but by those rooineks whose want of cunning and of veld-craft had for so long been a subject of derision and merriment.

Word Forms

• rooineks
• rooinekke

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rooineck, rhodie, ranga, rotchie, rooke, ralphie.

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