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rooinekke

rooinekke is the plural 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

Questions about rooinekke

What is rooinekke the plural of?
Rooinekke is the plural of rooinek.

Words near rooinekke in the dictionary

  1. rooikat
  2. rooikats
  3. rooineck
  4. rooinecks
  5. rooinek
  6. rooinekke
  7. rooineks
  8. rook
  9. rook and rabbit rifle
  10. rook and rabbit rifles
  11. rook lift

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