Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A negro; a colored person.
- n. A policeman's lantern; a bull's-eye. Dickens.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of darkey.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang a negro; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people
Examples
“Hey, I had this great idea last night that if you dress up a black guy like a woman after before you kill them, you can claim it was self defense and not a hate crime because the darky was a violent sex offender/tranny!”
“It suah do work, Mistah Swift!" called the darky to Tom, who was waiting the result of his little repair job.”
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road
“For a moment I was completely bewildered; then, as I recalled the darky's crafty and indirect ways, my confidence returned and I had the keenest curiosity to see what would be forthcoming.”
“(the Yanks would love him) and calling a darky a darky is only funny for a while.”
“After more banter with the "darky" Agnew, Nixon opened the piano duet with Franklin Roosevelt's favorite song ( "Home on the Range"), then Harry Truman's ( "Missouri Waltz"), then Lyndon Johnson's ( "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You").”
The Huffington Post: White House On Sykes-Limbaugh: 9/11 Jokes Cross The Line (VIDEO)
“In the South the hillbilly disk jockeys refused to play him because they said he was singing "darky" music.”
Steve Anderson: Elvis Presley 1/8/35 - 8/16/77: for I can't help falling in love with you
“For DarKush, it offered "darky" when I went to type the url in by hand....”
“I remember one such particularly, the most intelligent one in Hampton, known as "an, influential darky" ( "darky" being the familiar term applied by the contrabands to themselves).”
“There is the story of the Civil War period, which pictures the "darky" on the old plantation, devoted to "young Massa" or "old Miss," -- the Negro of slavery.”
“But I yere th' darky's got a pile -- some two thousan '; _thet_ gwoes”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Lists
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Genes
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more...
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