outjie, noun

/ˈəʊki/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, ou (see ou noun) + diminutive suffix -ie.
colloquial
okie.
1960 [see moer verb sense 1].
1963 A. Fugard Blood Knot (1968) 104The wind turned and brought the stink from the lake..and a clear memory of two little outjies in khaki broeks.
1971 E. Higgins Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)If he accepted the sales talk of the Borstal he would become an acceptable outjie.
1984 E. Mphahlele Afrika my Music 124Listen to him, outjies, you’d say, just listen to him. That’s no damn shebeen language.
1987 New Nation 28 May 11When I was a child, I can remember a white man pointing to me and saying ‘These outjies, I hate them more than poison’.
1988 A. Campbell in Fair Lady 27 Apr. 96I prayed for all those other outjies on the border.
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outie, nounn.outlander, nounn.
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