blacky

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Etymology

From black +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

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blacky (plural blackies)

  1. (informal, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
    • 1836, Pedestres (pseud.), Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.), A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles through Wales and England (page 269)
      t was agreed that two double beds were in requisition: — one for the host and hostess — and the other for the loving nigger and his wife, who it plainly appeared, had no inclination to be separated. Our hope was in a double bed — the one which the blacky and his fairer half looked at with a longing eye — but out of which he had no idea of turning:
    • 1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91:
      Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.

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