stadsjapie, noun
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, stads- combining form of stad city + japie see japie (formed by analogy with plaasjapie).
colloquial
A city-dweller; one ignorant of country ways. Cf. plaasjapie.
1970 A. Palmer Informant, King William’s Town, Eastern CapeStadsjapies know nothing about the country.
1988 D. Hughes et al. Complete Bk of S. Afr. Wine 61This is not a world which is often seen or penetrated by the stadsjapies, the city folk who flock to the winelands in the golden height of summer.
A city-dweller; one ignorant of country ways.
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