rooineck, noun
/ˈrɔɪnek/
- Forms:
- Also roineck.
- Origin:
- Partial translation of Afrikaans rooinek.
often derogatory
rooinek.
1918 C.G. Carter Informant, Westminster, Free StateThey seem very keen on getting out to S.A...of course they think it is a snake ridden burnt up place, like all other rooi necks.
1969 Viscount Buckmaster Roundabout 279An English taxi-driver told me that he had lived for twenty years in Cape Town, only still to be called ‘A bloody roineck’, the name given to our troops in the Boer War.
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