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ofay
noun
a white person US, 1925
Origin unknown. Suggestions of a Pig Latin etymology (foe) are implausible. More plausible are suggestions of a basis in an African language or the French au fait (socially proper).- Ofay, of course, is pig Latin for foe. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 221, 1946
- “You mean those ofays?” — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 282, 1947
- It was in this period that the “ofays,” Harlem’s word for whites, began mixing openly. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 97, 1948
- It was a pleasure house, where those rich ofay (white) business men and planters would come from all over the South and spend some awful large amounts of loot. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 147, 1954
- [T]hey will lay their salves and balms on a sufferer even allowing he’s ofay. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 150, 1954
- Hincty little ofay is Harlemese for snotty little white girl. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 14, 1957
- Not like some of them ofays come here with race girls. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 337, 1958
- “I don’t know the names of all the ofays who come into my place,” Bucky said. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 63, 1959
- The old ofay failing! — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 43, 1961
- She a ofay with red hair and all the time before Patricia come, she think she so sly and wise because she my only white chick in my stable[.] — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 55, 1967
- In six weeks myself and two of the other musicians had scored with “ofay chicks”. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 15, 1967
- You one of those ofay liberals who’s got high hopes[.] — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 151, 1968
- I am here to tell you that that ofay boy has really got sex appeal in spades! — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 90, 1968
- [T]he niggers think the ofay boys is getting it, but the truth of the matter is, man, that ain’t nobody getting it[.] — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 52, 1969
- I turned around–“Ofay trash dee-stroy my nice bed!” — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 97, 1992
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