soutpiel, noun
/ˈsəʊtpil/
- Plurals:
- soutpiele /ˈsəʊtpilə/, soutpiels.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, sout salt + piel penis; see quotation 1983.
derogatory
Not in polite use. rooinek.
- Note:
- The word soutie is considered more acceptable than ‘soutpiel’.
1972 P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy 191What does she want with Bushmen and bolsheviks and a kaffir-loving soutpiel like you?..You know what does soutpiel mean? No? That’s what we call an Englishman. Saltprick.
1990 R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart 57Most English South Africans had some Afrikaans, but their accents betrayed them as soutpiels — ‘salt dicks’. A soutpiel was an Englishman with one foot in South Africa and the other in England — a straddle so broad that his cock dangled in the sea. Most policemen, on the other hand, were rocks, or Afrikaners, and rocks were not all that fond of soutpiels.
Visualise Quotations
Quotation summarySenses
Copyright © 2023 Dictionary Unit for South African English.