commie

commie

See also: Commie

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi

Etymology 1

Blend of communist +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
   • 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, 2003, page 49,

     “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”

   • 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,

     “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”

   • 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48,

     The commies claim they are helping the blacks.

2. (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist

Synonyms

• commo (Australia)

Translations

communist (pejorative)

Chinese: 共匪 (zh) Finnish: kommari (fi) French: coco (fr) m or f German: Kommi m or f Hungarian: komcsi (hu)

Macedonian: комуњар m (komunjar) Portuguese: comuna (pt) m or f Russian: коммуня́ка (ru) m or f (kommunjáka), комуня́ка m or f (komunjáka) Vietnamese: thằng cộng sản, thằng VC

communist — see communist

See also

• red under the bed

Adjective

commie (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, slang) Communist.

Etymology 2

From Commodore (“name of a car model”) +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, Australia) A Holden Commodore.

Etymology 3

From commercial vehicle

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.

Anagrams

• McOmie