darkie

English

Etymology

dark +‎ -ie

Noun

darkie (plural darkies)

1. Alternative spelling of darkey
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:

     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.

Anagrams

• akerid, daiker, raiked