rooinek

American  

[roo-ee-nek] / ˈru iˌnɛk /

noun

South African.

1. Briton; Britisher.

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rooinek British  

/ ˈrɔɪ-, ˈrʊɪnɛk /

noun

1. a contemptuous or jocular name for an English person or an English-speaking South African

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Etymology

Origin of rooinek

1885–90; < Afrikaans, equivalent to rooi red + nek neck

Example Sentences

He had been looking at the cow, and feeling it, when down out of the hayloft had come leaping the form of the Rooinek lieutenant, which had sprung in between him and the cow, and, stooping, had wrapped a white rag round his thigh, above the knee.

From Project Gutenberg

No more imaginative promises with reference to the taking of the small, defiant hamlet before breakfast, wiping out the garrison to a rooinek, and starting on the homeward march refreshed with coffee and biltong, and driving the towns-people before them as prisoners of War.

From Project Gutenberg

"To-morrow" was here, and it would bring the challenge from Oom Paul to try the might of England against the iron courage of those to whom the Vierkleur was the symbol of sovereignty from sea to sea and the ruin of the Rooinek.

From Project Gutenberg

The sjambok had, like a wizard's wand, as it were, lifted him away from England to spaces where he watched from the grey rock of a kopje for the glint of an assegai or the red of a Rooinek's tunic: and he had done both in his day.

From Project Gutenberg

Not a shot had been fired, and there would certainly have been firing if the Boer had known; for he could not allow the Rooinek to get to the point where his own position would be threatened or commanded.

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