blacky

plural blackies · alternative blackey · alternative blackie

1. derogatoryethnicinformaloffensiveslurA black person.

   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.

   1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91

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   [I]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: […]

   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)

   Synonyms: coon, nigger, wog

1. A nickname of the surname Black.

   Go ask Blacky if he wants to join us for beers after work tonight.