Rhodie, noun

/ˈrəʊdi/
Origin:
EnglishShow more Formed on Rhodesian + English (informal) noun-forming suffix -ie.
colloquial, often derogatory
A White expatriate of the former Rhodesia; a White person from Zimbabwe (especially one resentful of majority rule).
Note:
Used (since the renaming of the country in 1980) in contrast to Zimbabwean.
1983 Rand Daily Mail 16 Sept. 1Detention without acquittal would remain in Zimbabwe as long as there were threats from ‘South African destabilisation, bandits and old Rhodies who still try to carry on the war which ended at Lancaster House’.
1988 E. Prov. Herald 27 Feb. 6The SABC has hurtled into 20th century politics..laying on a simulcast in English for the Rhodies on the Natal South Coast.
1990 Weekly Mail 28 Sept. 9They were told that the skills they’d acquired abroad were urgently required by the new, non-racial nation now that the Rhodies’ illegal government had been toppled...Cynics and doom merchants are already muttering that..there’ll be the same migration out of South Africa, though where the brains draining away go could be a problem (as it is for Rhodies) — the southern tip of the continent being the end of the road.
1993 Weekly Mail 21 May 16Not so long ago, Rhodies ruled the world...But..they had to give way, and they are not happy.
A White expatriate of the former Rhodesia; a White person from Zimbabwe (especially one resentful of majority rule).
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Rhodes grass, noun phrasen. phr.ribbetjie, nounn.
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