Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See blacky.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of blacky.

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Examples

  • Two circumstances contributed materially to immortalize this particular spring in my recollections: I then completed my tenth year, which I thought left me on the very threshold of womanhood, and we had two pet squirrels, who inhabited the locust trees in front of the house, with a tin cage to retire to at night -- one of whom we called "blackey," and the other "browney," from their different colors.

    A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

  • On one occasion, after dinner, one of these addressed an intelligent black steward, who was waiting, by the contemptuous designation of "blackey;" the man replied to him in this manner: -- "My name is Robert; when you want any thing from me please to address me by my name; there is no gentleman on board who would have addressed me as you have done; we are all the same flesh and blood; I did not make myself; God made me."

    A Visit to the United States in 1841 Joseph Sturge 1826

  • OR are you telling white women & men see blackey likes white women!!!! you suck CNN, I see exactly where this is going.

    She may have a crush on Obama 2008

  • The average wealth of whitey is ten times that of blackey.

    Reece: Increase Cab Fees For Bulletproof Glass Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • If you find the blackey not disinclined to come to such poor folks, I will take her in September.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • And then old blackey-brown Sancho moved on in a gentle trot, and Willie and Helen and Richard went into the house, where Curlypate had already gone, and where they found her on tiptoe, with her short little fingers in the sugar-bowl, trying in vain to find a lump that would not go to pieces in the vigorous squeeze that she gave in her desire to make sure of it.

    Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869

  • No doubt she was accustomed to it; the road-worn feet must have cared little for wet or dry, and the round shock of wool perhaps never had a covering; yet it was bowed to the rain, and the little blackey went by with lagging step and a sort of slow crying.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • Presently, whether to try how benevolence worked, or to run away from her feeling of awkwardness, she got up and moved a few steps towards the place where the little blackey sat.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • The little blackey immediately squatted herself down on the ground against the wall, and looking up at him repeated,

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • "Nobody ha'n't no business to let me starve," said the blackey stoutly.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

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