dronkie, noun

/ˈdrɔŋki/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, dronk drunk + -ie.
colloquial
A drunkard; dronklap. Also attributive.
1940 M.G. Gilbert Informant, Cape Town, Western Cape 16 June 4The feeling that so many of them are going away soon, rather cast a shadow on everyone — except the dronkies!
1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena 35Crawling out of your holes. Like worms. Babalas as the day you were born. That piece of ground was rotten with dronkies.
1979 Voice 2 Sept. 5Hee...Heee...Heeee! Boy, the dronkie Stinking old man, Come for a wash on my mamma’s lap.
1979 Sunday Times 23 Sept. (Mag. Sect.) 8His leading lady turns out to be a dronkie, so he calls in a last-minute replacement, a pretty ingenue who knows all the numbers.
1987 L. Beake Strollers 70Woollen-capped dronkies down from the berg danced with their eyes closed until they fell over or were taken away.
1990 A. Maimane in Weekly Mail 22 June (Weekend Mail) 2These figures suggested whites were the world’s greatest dronkies, even if the average intake was diluted by applying the total census figures, thus including babies.
A drunkard; dronklap. Also attributive.
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