darkie

English

Etymology

dark +‎ -ie

Noun

darkie (plural darkies)

  1. Alternative spelling of darkey
    • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 22, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:
      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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