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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blacky-white en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, ethnic, informal, obsolete, offensive, slur) A Eurasian (person of mixed European and Asian ancestry).
    • Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust. 2021, Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj, Anglo-Indian Identity, page 401:
    • The captain, his face the color of a ripe tomato, leaned over the rail screaming insults at white men who married blacky-whites, the dishonesty of foreigners, and his opinion of the whole proceedings in general. 2015, Daniel P. Mannix, Peter Ryhiner, The Wildest Game, page 243:

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blacky-whites Number=Plur lexicographic