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Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps an alteration of blackedy (“extremely black”) + black, with the reduplication serving to intensify or stress the focus on being black (i.e. African-American); blackedy being from black + -ed + -y.
Adjective
blackity-black (comparative more blackity-black, superlative most blackity-black)
- (slang, of persons) Typifying characteristic traits (e.g. physical, cultural, linguistic, etc.) of African-American blacks, especially in defiant contrast to those of whites or white-favouring blacks; quintessentially or characteristically black
2006, Carol Taylor, Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales:Like my dad would say, he was "blackity black black." My parents would freak.
2014, Teresa Wiltz, The Real America: The tangled roots of race and identity:I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all And I'm blackity black and I'm black y'all [...]
2015, Mat Johnson, Loving Day: A Novel:“I'm black. You're black. African American, Bilalian, Negro, Colored folk, blackity-black, black. Those Oreos up there, they're black too, although I'm sure they'd cry if you told them.
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