dorpie

English

Etymology

See dorp.

Noun

dorpie (plural dorpies)

  1. (South Africa) A small town.
    • 2006, Dean Liprini, Pathways of the Sun (page 12)
      Then our minibus overheated and blew its engine, stranding us at Vioolsdrif, a dorpie on the northern bank of the Orange River.

Read in another language

This page is available in 4 languages

Last modified on 10 December 2012, at 16:58