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rooinek
English
Etymology
From Afrikaans rooinek, from rooi (“red”) + nek (“neck”). Probably a reference to the fact that Englishmen, being new to Africa, wore inadequate headgear (such as solar topees (pith helmets) or no hat at all) and thus sunburned more easily than Afrikaners. Other theories have it being a reference to the then red collars of British military uniforms, or to the red markings that British farmers put on their imported merino sheep. Compare redneck.
Pronunciation
- (General South African) IPA(key): /????nek/
- (UK) IPA(key): /????n?k/
Noun
rooinek (plural rooineks)
- (South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans. [from 19th c.]
- 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, 2011, page 470,
- 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.
- 1904, Sabine Baring-Gould, The White Flag,
- “Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”
- 1906, William Henry Fitchett, Ithuriel's Spear, 2008, page 240,
- '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.'
- 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, 2011, page 470,
Anagrams
- nookier
Afrikaans
Etymology
rooi +? nek
Noun
rooinek (plural rooinekke)
- an Englishman, originally specifically a British soldier during the Boer wars, but by the early 20th century a general colloquial term, commonly derogatory, for anyone with English connections (later partly superseded by khaki)
References
- 1978, Jean Banford, A Dictionary of South African English, Oxford.
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rooineck
English
Noun
rooineck (plural rooinecks)
- Alternative form of rooinek
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