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darky; darkie
noun- a black person US, 1775
Originally used in a paternalistic, condescending manner, but now mainly to disparage. - The darky maid was at the door to greet me, but this time she had on her hat and coat. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 49, 1947
- In fact, there’s a saying in Georgetown now that you’re not “smart” unless darkies live next door to you. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 10, 1951
- She’s that nun who stools for them two darky dicks, ain’t she? — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 150, 1957
- My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even. — Colin McInnes, City of Spades, 1957
- Darkies are always singing. You people know that. — James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, p. 73, 1964
- “All us darkies don’t have that thing, do we?” Tim said. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 22, 1965
- Well, what the hell is your problem that you and that other darky would come here to my house with the city lousy with government agents? — Ice Berg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 148, 1977
- I mean in the East End it’s, like, there is a lot of darkies because it is a working class area I s’pose — Ask, p. 74, 8 May 1981
- You would be totally shafted if you shot some old darkie and there was no evidence[.] — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 8, 1994
- I don’t do that darky street shit. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, 1999
- But who was using em? Chinese immigrants. Slave labor. And the darkies up in the inner cities[.] — Traffic, 2000
- [T]he wee darkie lassie with the funny name[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 53, 2002
- an Australian Aboriginal AUSTRALIA, 1845
- Lord, you’re a goon. You look like a darkie going to a corroboree. — Ruth Park, The Harp In The South, p. 211, 1948
- I saw these abo fellas all getting onto the other darkie, not Billy. — Petru Popescu, The Last Wave, p. 179, 1977
- — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 133, 1998
- a Polynesian person NEW ZEALAND, 1863
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 37, 1999
- used as a flattering and affectionate term of address for an attractive, dark-skinned woman TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1990
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- a piece of excrement AUSTRALIA
- “A giant’s been here.” “What evidence have you?” we asked. “In the lav,” he said. We went to look. Lying indolently on its side was a twelve inch darky about this big and this round and sliced off at both ends like a loaf of bread. — David Ireland, The Flesheaters, p. 126, 1972
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