Dictionary

blacky en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈblæki/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blacky From black + -y (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur) A black person.
   • [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)
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

whity

Deriveds

blacky-white

Synonyms

nigger · wog · coon