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/ˈɹɔɪnek/ · noun
(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans..
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.
“Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”
'My father was at Bronkhurst Spruit,' he continued. 'How they shot the rooineks down that day! Our men lay in the long grass, while the redcoats stood in line on the road, and they shot them like rabbits. The fools! Their guns were in the carts.'
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.
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.
Use rooinek when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rooinek means (South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans..
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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.
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