rooinek /ˈɹɔɪnɛk/ noun1 •(South-Africa, offensive) 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 formsrooinekke · rooineks