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halfie en · NOUN

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Etymology

From half + -ie.

Meanings

1. (informal) A person of mixed-race ancestry.
   • I went through an awkward patch on my halfie journey, being self-conscious about not looking like the other white kids. 2022 September 19, E. Alex Jung, quoting Karen O, “In Conversation: Karen O”, in New York:
   • Multiracial, mulatto, mixed-nuts, halfies: Whatever you want to call us today, we remain the fastest growing demographic in our country. 2024 August 4, Danzy Senna, “In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • But, in this story, it is perfectly acceptable for a young Latino man to choose to date, and to want to date a brown girl, a white girl, a black girl or a halfie. 2003, Bridget A. Kevane, Latino Literature in America, page 78:
2. (slang) A half-smoked cigarette.

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hafu, haafu