Dictionary

darkie en · NOUN

Etymology

From dark + -ie.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) Alternative spelling of darkey.
   alt of darkey
   • In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo. 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
   • My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even. 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:

Forms

Deriveds

choke a darkie