darkie

English

Etymology

From dark + -ie.

Noun

darkie (plural darkies)

1. (dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Alternative spelling of darkey.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• choke a darkie

Anagrams

• akerid, daiker, raiked