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dark·y

also dark·ie  (där′kē)
n. pl. dark·ies Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
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darky

(ˈdɑːkɪ) ,

darkie

or

darkey

n, pl darkies or darkeys
1. an offensive word for a Black person
2. Austral an offensive word for a native Australian
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dark•y

or dark•ie

(ˈdɑr ki)

n., pl. dark•ies.
usage: This term, though rarely used today, is perceived as patronizing, demeaning, or insulting. Its earliest uses in English show that it was a neutral, informal term, but its degree of offensiveness has increased.
n.
(a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.)
Older Use: Offensive.
[1765–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.darky - (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people
derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
ethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or language
Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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References in classic literature ?
It looked hot and blank and sleepy, down to the shabby waterside where tattered darkies dangled their bare feet from the edge of rotting wharves.
There were darkies and loafers and hackmen, and also vague individuals, the loosest and blankest he had ever seen anywhere, with tufts on their chins, toothpicks in their mouths, hands in their pockets, rumination in their jaws and diamond pins in their shirt-fronts, who looked as if they had sauntered over from Pennsylvania Avenue to while away half an hour, forsaking for that interval their various slanting postures in the porticoes of the hotels and the doorways of the saloons.
The first of these was the song "That's Why Darkies Were Born," which certainly sounds aggressively racist.
Roosevelt called black people "darkies" and "pickaninnies." Yet, she was instrumental in having black opera singer Marian Anderson perform in an integrated setting and flew in an aircraft piloted by a Tuskegee Airman, among other things.
Roosevelt called black folks "darkies" and "pickaninnies." Yet she was instrumental in having black opera singer Marian Anderson perform in an integrated setting and flew in an aircraft piloted by a Tuskegee Airman, among other things.
Columnist Richard Cohen applauds the teams for yanking the song and statue on the news that Smith sung in the 1930s arguably racist ditties, like "That's Why Darkies Were Born" -- while concluding Smith didn't appear to be overtly racist herself.
The New York Daily News reported Thursday there are conflicting claims about Smith's 1939 song "That's Why Darkies Were Born." The song originated in the 1931 Broadway revue "George White's Scandals," and was considered satire.
on the details with anecdotes about "darkies" he helped on
Meanwhile, the highlight of the day was the soccer tournament, which consisted of teams such as Mexican Dogs Football Club, Monarch First XI, Mbaga, BZ Football Club and Darkies Soccer Club.
One of his statements regarding black people and the use of marijuana said, "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
But this philosophy is based on a giant lie: A gauzy fable of a land of gallant cavaliers and beautiful ladies in hoop skirts - and loyal "darkies" who were lazy but comical, childishly loyal or wise mammies.
Police gave him a list of names, he said, which were "all Asian" and claimed his handler referred to "darkies".