soutie, noun

/ˈsəʊti/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, sout (short for soutpiel, see soutpiel) salt + -ie.
slang
rooinek. Also attributive.
1946 C.A. Smith in P. Beale Partridge’s Dict. of Slang (1984) Soutie, English sailor, soldier or, above all, airman serving in S. Africa.: S. African: 1939+.
1972 P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy 191So tell me, soutie, if she warned you why didn’t you get out of this flat?
1972 P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy 192You’re no good to me without a memory, soutie, in fact you’re an embarrassment, walking around like this when you should be locked up for dondering policemen.
1977 W. Steenkamp in Cape Times 5 Dec. 13A good South African of fairly recent ‘soutie’ origin.
1978 Star 29 Aug.If you wear corduroys from America in Zeerust then everybody seems to know that you are a soutie before you open your mouth...The butcher is..smiling to himself in that funny way they smile at souties in Zeerust. In Mafeking they are more used to the English. There was a time when the only people in Mafeking were souties and their servants...In that new place called Mmabatho..Zulus and souties can sit together for supper at the same table and they do not even wash the knives and forks separately.
1979 Sunday Times 9 Sept. (Mag. Sect.) 4As in most Karoo towns, the South African War is still being fought on the cricket and rugby fields...At our stock sales and annual shows the ‘Souties’ and ‘Vaalseuns’ still vie for superiority.
1986 Sunday Times 16 Mar. (Business Times) 2Last week we highlighted the awkward situation in which Barclays stands — like a ‘soutie’, with one foot in South Africa and the other in the UK.
1986 S. Smith in Style Nov. 52Typical souties (‘a man who has one foot in South Africa and the other across the sea in England, suffering a gentle dousing in consequence’ as the Observer laboriously explained) arrive with just over £2000 and the addresses of a few old South African friends and the odd English cousin.
1989 J. Scott Daily Dispatch 11 Apr. 5The Speaker called him to order when he announced: ‘We are not a soutie party.’
1991 [see siestog].
rooinek. Also attributive.
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