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Definition of Rooineks
1. rooinek [n] - See also: rooinek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooineks
Literary usage of Rooineks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scouting for Buller by Herbert Hayens (1902)
"They've only to hold back the rooineks at Ladysmith while we smash those at Glencoe.
... These rooineks will give more trouble than you think. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1903)
"... Cronje had beaten Methuen, and driven the rooineks into the sea; the rooineks
had been beaten at Stormberg and driven into the sea; Joubert had beaten ..."
3. South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke (1900)
"The despised rooineks had, after all, not even been thrust into the sea : in
fact, it appeared that the sea had cultivated a trick of casting up ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"... and helped the ' verdomde rooineks ' to overcome somewhat Hans Botha's
antipathy^to Englishmen generally—for the British were then at Pretoria, ..."
5. Malaboch; Or, Notes from My Diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 Against the by Colin Rae (1898)
"I could not understand all his reply, but a part of it was translated to me to
this effect: " Our fathers fought the ' rooineks,' and their sons will fight ..."
6. Letters from an Uitlander, 1899-1902 by Bartle Compton Arthur Frere (1903)
"... Cape Town to the Zambesi, is founded upon what that flag implies—equal justice
and freedom for all—and is not founded upon any wish that " rooineks," ..."
7. Briton Or Boer?: A Tale of the Fight for Africa by George Chetwynd Griffith (1899)
"Our men do not shoot as straight as they did then, and the rooineks shoot straighten
They have learnt many things, too, since then—more than our people have ..."
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