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commie en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑ.mi/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈkɒ.mi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɔ.mi/ (Australia)

Etymology

Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, not-comparable, slang) Communist.

Deriveds

anti-commie

commie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑ.mi/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈkɒ.mi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɔ.mi/ (Australia)

Etymology

Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
    • 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:
    • 1966 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.”
    • "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:
    • Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.
    • “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 49:
  2. (broadly, derogatory, slang) Synonym of anticapitalist.

Forms

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Deriveds

commiecrat · Commiefornia · anti-commie · anarcho-commie · femicommie · commie block

Relateds

tankie · red under the bed

Synonyms

commo · anticapitalist

Translations (30)

et kommu (communist (pejorative)) · vi thằng cộng sản (communist (pejorative)) · es rojo (communist (pejorative)) · pl komuch (communist (pejorative)) · cmn 共匪 (communist (pejorative)) · uk комуня́ка (communist (pejorative)) · ja 共匪 (communist (pejorative)) · es rojillo (communist (pejorative)) · pl komuszka (communist (pejorative)) · ko 적구 (communist (pejorative)) · el κομμούνι (communist (pejorative)) · be камуня́ка (communist (pejorative)) · ru коммуня́ка (communist (pejorative)) · de Kommi (communist (pejorative)) · es zurdo (communist (pejorative)) · cs komouš (communist (pejorative)) · fr coco (communist (pejorative)) · cs komouška (communist (pejorative)) · es comunistoide (communist (pejorative)) · fi kommari (communist (pejorative)) · es chairo (communist (pejorative)) · hu komcsi (communist (pejorative)) · pt comuna (communist (pejorative)) · es bolche (Rio de la Plata) (communist (pejorative)) · es comuñanga (communist (pejorative)) · mk комуња́рка (communist (pejorative)) · ru комуня́ка (communist (pejorative)) · ko 공비 (communist (pejorative)) · ko 빨갱이 (communist (pejorative)) · mk комуња́р (communist (pejorative))

commie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑ.mi/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈkɒ.mi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɔ.mi/ (Australia)

Etymology

From Commodore (“name of a car model”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Meanings

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A Holden Commodore.

Forms

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commie en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑ.mi/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈkɒ.mi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɔ.mi/ (Australia)

Etymology

From commercial vehicle.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) A commercial vehicle.

Forms

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