Crossword clues for blackie
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also blacky, "a black person," 1815, from black (adj.) + -y (3).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of blacky English)
Wikipedia
Blackie is the nickname given by Eric Clapton to his favourite Fender Stratocaster.
Blackie was a swaybacked horse who, for twenty-eight years, was a well-known fixture in Tiburon, California. He not only stood in the same spot in a pasture at the corner of Tiburon Boulevard and Trestle Glen Road, rarely moving, day after day, but he faced in the same direction, becoming the local mascot of several generations. Born in Kansas, Blackie was brought to California to become a cutting horse at rodeos. After his rodeo career, he was sold to the Army and became a cavalry horse, accompanying the Army horses stabled at the Presidio of San Francisco as they rode to Yosemite National Park each spring to patrol the park. He was retired when he was 12 years old.
Tiburon Blackie was not the horse who made history swimming San Francisco Bay. Tiburon Blackie had three white socks not found on the film of the bay swimmer. Tiburon Blackie worked at Yosemite and was owned by local retired military man.
A short time later, Anthony Connell, his new owner, put him in the Tiburon pasture where he found his spot and stood, day after day in the same place, for 28 years. When Blackie collapsed and died while standing in “his” spot on February 27, 1966, the Marin County Health Department approved his burial in the pasture. His grave was marked by a simple cross and a memorial plaque made possible by contributions from citizens of the peninsula. In June 1995, the Tiburon Peninsula Foundation erected a life-sized sculpture of Blackie in what is now known as Blackie’s Pasture.
Blackie may refer to:
Michael LaCour (born 1987 in La Porte, Texas), known by his stage name B L A C K I E... All Caps, With Spaces (styled B L A C K I E) is an American noise musician and record producer. His music is an array of industrial, noise, electronica, hardcore punk, and rap.
Blackie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Josh Blackie, New Zealand rugby union player
- Don Blackie (1882–1955), Australian cricketer
- Ernest Blackie (1867–1943), Anglican priest
- Fergus Blackie, former justice of the High Court of Zimbabwe and lawyer
- John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895), Scottish scholar
- Sid Blackie (1901-1966), English footballer
Blackie or Blacky is the nickname of:
Usage examples of "blackie".
She was no longer sure, but it had been thereabouts, and Blackie had been her dearest, closest friend for all those sixty-five years.
Stone Hall and mounted the staircase, with Emily trailing in her wake, Emma had another thought: Maybe she would take Blackie up on his little proposition after all.
What do you think Blackie would say if I entered her in the Grand National next year?
Emma murmured as she finished dressing in readiness for her dinner date with Blackie and Shane.
Occasionally Blackie could not resist the temptation to indulge himself in a few jazzy silk ties and handkerchiefs and ascots in florid patterns and brilliant colors, but he made certain never to wear them when he was seeing Emma.
Emma shrugged, and, since she confided most things in Blackie these days, she told him about her conversation with Edwina, her attempts to reason with her daughter.
They sounded for all the world like a couple of builders about to embark on a major construction project, and Blackie was most vociferous in his opinions, which tickled Emma.
In fact conviviality seemed to spill out of Blackie tonight, and he beamed first at Emma,- then at Shane.
And she would not inflict such a terrible load on her dearest friend Blackie, she had said.
Still he and Blackie had liked each other well enough and had gone off to fight a war together.
Her love and friendship for him rose up in her to mingle with a terrible sadness and a sense of regret for Blackie, as she envisioned the pain he must have suffered then and afterward, perhaps.
How vulnerable and susceptible she would have been to her one true friend Blackie in her heartbreak, loneliness, and despair.
This ring had lain in a vault waiting for her for fifty years, and she had promised Blackie she would never take it off.
Emma, stood talking to her for a few minutes, but very shortly she excused herself and drew Blackie away from the crowd.
Emma saw Blackie standing to one side, away from the large group of people, talking to her two youngest grandchildren, Amanda and Francesca.