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blacky

American  
[blak-ee] / ˈblæk i /
Or blackie

noun

Disparaging and Offensive.
  • blackies
    plural
  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.


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Like the calling of throstles and blackies, in the evening, frightening the pale little wood-anemones, till they run panting and swaying right up to our wall.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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