whitey
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
whitey (comparative whitier, superlative whitiest)
- Alternative form of whity
- a whitey-brown colour
Noun
whitey (plural whiteys or whities)
- (African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, a person of European descent.
- 1976, New York Magazine (volume 9, number 47, page 102)
- "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."
- 1997, Dave Chappelle, "Racism Connoisseur" on HBO Comedy Half-Hour:
- 1976, New York Magazine (volume 9, number 47, page 102)
- (British, slang) A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.
- 2012, Jenny Fagan, The Panopticon, page 233:
- 'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said.
I handed him the crisps.
'I'm gonnae have a whitey,' he said and fucked off up to the toilet to be sick.
- 2013, Lucy Prebble, The Effect, page 75:
- Tristan: I'm having a whitey.
He seems about to be sick.
Connie: You're on a placebo, Tristan, you're not on the drug.
Synonyms
- (white person): cracker, honky, pecker, peckerwood, whitebread, wonderbread
- See Thesaurus:white person
Coordinate terms
Meronyms
- (poor white person in the American South): cracker, hick, hillbilly, poor white trash, redneck, trailer trash, white trash
Related terms
- (of or relating to white people): white-bread, wonderbread
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