Meanings
commie1
plural commies
- derogatoryslangA communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.
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“Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”
1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, published 2003, page 491966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67, “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”
The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48"I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."
2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024
- derogatorynot comparableslangCommunist.
So wait, their objection to you is that you're TOO COMMIE? Like, the archetypical leftist in a conservative's mind is a bluehair who is obsessive about sexual politics and every fad. It's not an undeserved reputation, but you're very much not that. These guys are out of touch.
2020 December 11, Anon who hates eugenics (@eugenicskun), Twitter
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comparative more Commie · superlative most Commie
- derogatoryslangCommunist.
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Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of anticapitalist.
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Origin
commie · noun, adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱom-moy-ni-s
- Proto-Italic*kommoinis
- Old Latincomoinis
- Latincommūnis
- Old Frenchcomun
- Frenchcommun
- Frenchcommuniste
- Englishcommunist
- Englishcommie
commie · noun
From Commodore (“name of a car model”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Full word history & related roots →Commie · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)meh₂-
- Proto-Italic*manus
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁t
- Proto-Italic*manuðō
- Latinmandō
- Latincommendō
- Latinmandōinflu.
- Latincommandāre
- Old Frenchcomander
- Old Frenchcomandeor
- Middle Frenchcommandeur
- Frenchcommandeur
- Dutchkommandeur
- Englishcommodore
- EnglishCommie
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 共匪
- 共匪 (gòngfěi)communist (pejorative)
Czech komouš, komouška
- komoušcommunist (pejorative)
- komouškacommunist (pejorative)
Estonian kommu
- kommucommunist (pejorative)
Finnish kommari
- kommaricommunist (pejorative)
French coco
- cococommunist (pejorative)
German Kommi
- Kommicommunist (pejorative)
Greek κομμούνι
- κομμούνι (kommoúni)communist (pejorative)
Hungarian komcsi
- komcsicommunist (pejorative)
Japanese 共匪
- 共匪 (kyōhi)communist (pejorative)
Korean 빨갱이, 적구
- 빨갱이 (ppalgaeng'i)communist (pejorative)
- 적구 (jeokgu)communist (pejorative)
- 공비 (gongbi)communist (pejorative)
Polish komuch, komuszka
- komuchcommunist (pejorative)
- komuszkacommunist (pejorative)
Portuguese comuna
- comunacommunist (pejorative)
Russian коммуня́ка, комуня́ка
- коммуня́ка (kommunjáka)communist (pejorative)
- комуня́ка (komunjáka)communist (pejorative)
Spanish comunistoide, rojo
- comunistoidecommunist (pejorative)
- rojocommunist (pejorative)
- rojillocommunist (pejorative)
- bolche (Rio de la Plata)communist (pejorative)
- zurdocommunist (pejorative)
- chairocommunist (pejorative)
- comuñangacommunist (pejorative)
Ukrainian комуня́ка
- комуня́ка (komunjáka)communist (pejorative)
Vietnamese thằng cộng sản
- thằng cộng sảncommunist (pejorative)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with commie
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Cite this entry
commie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commie
“commie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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