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rooinek S. Afr.|ˈrɔɪnɛk|
Also roineck and with capital initial. pl. rooineks, rooinekke.
[Afrikaans, f. rooi red + nek neck.]
A term applied by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans to the British or to English-speaking South Africans.
1890‘S. Erasmus’ Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp ii. 14 One morning he was on the market with his waggon when two men—English Rooineks— came and said: ‘Piet, do you want to make {pstlg}15?’ 1896H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. 210 Cornelis would open up, and yarn to me in a way that, until you know him well, the Boer seldom manifests to the rooi-nek. 1900Captain III. 121/1 Rooinek scout. 1900Kipling in Daily Express 13 June 4/5 And you will see how we can shoot rooineks. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 32/1, I was thinking of the efforts that that infernal rooinek (red-neck) of a son of yours is making to deprive me of my only child. 1937C. R. Prance Tante Rebella's Saga 47 A rascally Irish ‘rooinek’ whose real name had been Pat Murphy till he changed it to Piet van der Merwe when he turned Afrikander. 1947H. C. Bosman Mafeking Road 117 But of course no rooinek can make a living out of farming, unless they send him money every month from England. 1962[see Limey a]. 1963S. Cloete Rags of Glory xxxix. 316 The Englishmen were sunburned, red as lobsters. They did not go brown like the Boers. That's why we call them rooineks—rednecks—Renata thought. 1969Visct. Buckmaster Roundabout xviii. 279 An 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. 1972Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 2 Feb. 6 Nasty little racist jibes, which we South Africans have been listening to for the past 10 years, about Van der Merwe and the Rooinekke and ‘a bantu’. 1975‘D. Jordan’ Black Account v. 32 The Afrikaner industrialists..had emerged since 1948 to challenge the English rooineks and their dominance of South African finance. |