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Offensive term for Black people
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darkie
Word definitions for darkie in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of darkey English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
darkie \dark"ie\ (d[aum]r"k[=e]), n. a black person; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive. Syn: darky, darkey.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. offensive term for Black people [syn: darky , darkey ]
Usage examples of darkie.
Rainbow had been entered in proper time and all regular by old Jacob, under the name of Darkie, which suited in all ways.
Australian crowd always likes to see the best horse win -- and they like fair play -- so Darkie was cheered over and over again, and old Jacob too.
Dawson, whom he had tricked into temporary association by adopting one of the disguises he can so wonderfully assume, requested that gentleman to receive the Handicap Stakes, won by his horse, Darkie, alias Rainbow, and to hand them over to the treasurer of the Turon Hospital, which was accordingly done.
Obadiah Hakeswill, Your Highness, and keep that bleeding heathen darkie away from me.
Sarah, a foolish, gossiping girl, who acted as nurse till better could be found, was waiting on them, and by the table sat Darkie, the black retriever, his long, curly back swaying slightly from the difficulty of holding himself up, and his solemn hazel eyes fixed very intently on each and all of the breakfast bowls.
Some of our darkies can take down this section of fence and drag the wagon up to our outbuildings.
But Jane, de worsest time of all fer us darkies wuz when de Ku Klux killed Dan Black.
Ma and I and one of the other children and a few darkies were at our home.
When dese poor white men went to de war, dey left deir little chillun and deir wives in de hands of de darkies dat was kind and de rich wives of our marsters to care fer.
One afternoon, he and four other darkies were going over there when the batteau turned over.
The darkies here on the place-Ned and Eulah-I got it straight from them.
Always quiet it is here, except when the darkies are having a shout at each other.
Marse George was right good about letting his darkies hunt and fish at night to get meat for themselves.
Paterollers would go out in squads at night and whip any darkies they caught out that could not show passes.
Lots of the darkies left after they heard about folks getting rich working on the railroads in Tennessee and about the high wages that were being paid on those big plantations in Mississippi.