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rooineck

rooineck is the alternative form of rooinek.

Meaning of rooinek

Noun

rooinek (plural rooineks or rooinekke)

  1. (South Africa, derogatory, ethnic, slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.
    • 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.1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, published 2011, page 470

Forms of rooineck

pluralrooinecks

Questions about rooineck

What is rooineck the alternative form of?
Rooineck is the alternative form of rooinek.

Words near rooineck in the dictionary

  1. rooibosch
  2. Rooiels
  3. rooigras
  4. rooikat
  5. rooikats
  6. rooineck
  7. rooinecks
  8. rooinek
  9. rooinekke
  10. rooineks
  11. rook

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