darkie
English
Etymology
dark + -ie
Noun
darkie (plural darkies)
- Alternative spelling of darkey
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 22, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 844076792:
- In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.
- 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:
- My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.
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Derived terms
- choke a darkie
Anagrams
- akerid, daiker, raiked