swarthies

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A form of swarthy — Tawny, dusky, dark.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of swarthy

    Hobby Lobby made a slight motion with his left hand and the swarthies froze in the desert.

    1980, The secret of Sam Marlow: The Further Adventures of the Man with Bogart's Face, page 12
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    Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain

    1900, The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, page 70

    Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.

    1962, The Skipper, volume 22, page 21

    The swarthies just stood waiting for whatever was in the air. I wanted to get up and walk away. But I didn't even budge.

    1997, The Chariton Review, Volume 23, Issue 1, page 71

    Real controversial stuff, sure, but you know what, he was actually in the dead center of polite opinion when it came to the Negroes and the swarthies and money-grubbing kikes and all those other lovely stereotypes.

    2010 Sympathy for the Devil page 366

    The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.

    2014 Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch page 52
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