whitey

comparative whitier · superlative whitiest · alternative whitie · alternative whity · alternative yt · alternative YT

1. alternativeAlternative form of whity.

   a whitey-brown colour

plural whiteys · plural whities · alternative whitie · alternative whity · alternative yt · alternative YT

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslurespecially African-American VernacularA white person, a person of Western European descent.

   She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw

   1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels

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   I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon

   1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

   "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."

   1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 47, page 102

   Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?

   1997, Dave Chappelle, “Racism Connoisseur”, in HBO Comedy Half-Hour (television production)

   [Bhuvan, English captions]: For the Whiteys, it's only a game.

   2001, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, Ashutosh Gowariker, et al.

   Synonyms: cracker, honky, pecker, peckerwood, whitebread, wonderbread, abelungu, ang moh

2. UKslangA state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.

   'Youths' happily do both and they're almost seen as weird if they don't smoke themselves into a whitey with their mates.

   2007 February 13, Baroness Edwina Frogbucket, “Cameron calls for harder line on cannabis use”, in uk.legal (Usenet)

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   (Drug users consuming this much alcohol are either slumpped in the corner having a whitey or already on their way to casualty in an ambulance.)

   2002 April 11, mi...@emgee.demon.co.uk, uk.politics.drugs (Usenet)

   Ocasionaly^([sic]) things don't work quite as expected but seriously i can't remeber^([sic]) last time i had a "whitey" not for many years that a certainty.

   2007 April 29, Mark Whiteley, uk.politics.drugs (Usenet)

   'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said. I handed him the crisps. 'I'm gonnae have a whitey,' he said and fucked off up to the toilet to be sick.

   2012, Jenny Fagan, The Panopticon, page 233

   Tristan: I'm having a whitey. He seems about to be sick. Connie: You're on a placebo, Tristan, you're not on the drug.

   2013, Lucy Prebble, The Effect, page 75