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Okie
noun
a poor, white resident or native of rural Oklahoma; a poor, white resident or native of the south-central US US, 1938
Used with derision or pride but not neutrally. “Derogatory slang
for whites” (Multicultural Management Program Fellows, 1989).- “He done hit me twice,” he snarled in an Okie voice. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 31, 1945
- I am quickly annoyed with people who speak disparagingly of “Okies.” — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 69, 1954
- So after a few beers in the saloon, where sullen Okies reeled to the music of a cowboy band, Terry and I and Johnny went into a motel room and got ready to hit the sack. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 93, 1957
- You don’t know whether she’s a hillbilly or an Okie or what. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 68, 1958
- The one thing about the Row was that it was filled with okies, weary old Wobblies, drunkies and dopies far gone, whores on their last legs–they never judged you. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 238, 1961
- Riverbank is divided into three parts, and in my corner of the world there were only three kinds of people: Mexicans, Okies and Americans. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 78, 1972
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