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rooibaadjie S. Afr.|ˈrɔɪˌbaɪkɪ, -ˌbaɪcɪ|
Also Roed Vatje, rooiba(a)tje, -baaitje.
[Afrikaans, f. rooi red + baadjie jacket.]
1. A British regular soldier, a redcoat. Now chiefly Hist.
1848H. Ward Five Yrs. in Kaffirland i. v. 164 And how Umhala would laugh at the Roed Vatjes! 1858[see sense 2]. 1885J. Nixon Compl. Story Transvaal x. 183 First of all the officers, regular and irregular, should be fired at, and then the men with the puggarees round their hats (that is, the volunteers); and as for the rovi-baatjes [sic] (red-backs, i.e. regulars), it didn't matter about them—they would be sure to run when their officers were killed. Ibid. xi. 202 The moment the Boers rushed out to attack, after they saw their friends coming down the hill-side, the ‘bastards’ naturally took to flight, and sixty of his [sc. the Boer commandant's] men followed them, and thereupon the ‘rooibatjes’ fled also. 1897E. Glanville Tales from Veld xxvi. 200 Sonny, them rooibaaitjes can fight, but they're foolish. 1941S. Cloete Hill of Doves (1942) viii. 116 Why, our men were soldiers, veterans of wars, when these Rooibaadjies were but children. 1971Daily Dispatch (East London, Cape Province) 18 Dec. 9 A young British rooibaadjie lurched towards him from the shadows!
2. A red larval form of the South African brown locust, Locustana pardalina.
1858H. Calderwood Caffres & Caffre Missions xii. 157 The youngest locusts..are then partly red and partly black... Sometimes they are called roibatjes—that is, red-coats, in allusion to the soldiers. 1875C. B. Bisset Sport & War in Afr. 170 You see the very earth become alive with diminutive insects,..increasing in size and becoming the colour of the brightest red. At this stage they are called the Rooi baatyes or red soldiers. 1902Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. XI. p. xlv, The young of the migratory one [sc. a locust]..are so gaily coloured as to have earned for them the local name of ‘rooi-batjes’, or redcoats. 1972Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. VII. 21/1 Young crowded hoppers would develop into typical phase gregaria ‘rooibaadjies’. |