roofie, noun

/ˈruəfi/
Forms:
Also rofie.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Etymology uncertain: perhaps Afrikaans roof scab + -ie.
army slang
A newly-recruited national serviceman; roof noun2. Also attributive.
1975 J.H. Picard in Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.6 No.1, 36The new recruits are called roofies, a roof becomes a blougat, when he is halfway through his course.
1975 Scope 10 Jan. 76 (headline)Attention roofies, blouies and oumanne, you will read this!
1977 G. Hugo in Quarry ’77 91I give them ‘Hard Rains a Going to Fall’. And they don’t really seem to dig the irony of it, just another mad roofie.
1980 Sunday Times 4 May (Mag. Sect.) 4 (caption)We love introducing the new intakes to the army with a ‘rofie ride’ from the station to the camp.
1991 R. Fragoso Informant, Pretoria, GautengRoofie:..Rookie. Somebody who has just started his army service, i.e. is doing basics. Army colloquialism.
A newly-recruited national serviceman; roof noun2. Also attributive.
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