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darkie

noun

Etymology

From dark + -ie.

  1. derived from *dʰer-✻ — “dull, dirty”
  2. derived from *dʰerg-✻ — “dim, dull”
  3. inherited from *derk✻ — “dark”
  4. inherited from deorc
  5. inherited from derk
  6. suffixed as darkie — “dark + ie”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of darkey.

    • 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.
    • My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA