darkien.adj.

Brit.

/ˈdɑːki/, U.S.

/ˈdɑrki/, Australian English

/ˈdʌːki/, New Zealand English /ˈdʌːki/

Forms: 1700s–1800s darkey, 1700s–1800s darkee, 1800s– darkie, 1800s– darky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark adj., -y suffix⁶.

Etymology: < dark adj. + -y suffix⁶.

A. n.

†1. slang. Night; evening, twilight. Obsolete.

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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun]

nighteOE

nightertalec1300

darkc1400

nightertimec1425

night-timec1430

night-tidea1500

night-season1530

darkmans?1536

Nox1567

moonshine1652

darkie?1738

the watches of the night1826

nite1928

bat-flight1934

?1738 Moll King (engraving) (Yale Univ., Lewis Walpole Libr. 738.00.00.03+) (caption) Who had you in your Ken last Darkee?

1754 D. O'Neale Mem. Life & Remarkable Exploits 18 I made the best Use of my Horse for that Darkey and the next.

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 124 Bless your eyes and limbs..I don't come here every darkey.

1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 363 He's coming at darkey just to see the beauty of things.

a. Originally North American. A dark-skinned person of sub-Saharan African origin or descent. Now colloquial and often offensive or derogatory (see note).In early use the term darkie did not itself have offensive or derogatory connotations, and was considered a neutral term for a black person (although the contexts of its use were often highly derogatory). The offensiveness of the term now varies: in British, South African, and American English, for instance, it is generally considered to be a racial slur when used by a white speaker, but the sense can be more neutral or positive when used by a black speaker and may be humorous or affectionate in tone. In some territories in the Caribbean where darkie refers specifically to a dark-skinned black person (esp. a woman), it is not considered offensive or derogatory and is often used of someone considered attractive (see e.g. quot. 2019); cf. browning n.⁴, lightie n.¹ 2.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]

AfriceOE

MoorOE

EthiopOE

blomana1225

Ethiopiana1325

blue mana1387

Moriana1387

black mana1398

blackamoor1525

black Morian1526

black boy1530

molen1538

Nigro1548

Nigrite1554

Negro1555

neger1568

nigger1577

blackfellow1598

Kaffir1607

black1614

thick-lipsa1616

Hubsheea1627

black African1633

blackface1704

sambo1704

Cuffee1713

Nigritian1738

fellow1753

Cuff1755

blacky1759

mungo1768

Quashie1774

darkie?1775

snowball1785

blue skin1788

Moriscan1794

sooterkin1821

nigc1832

tar-brush1835–40

Jim Crow1838

sooty1838

mokec1847

dinge1848

monkey1849

Siddi1849

dark1853

nigre1853

Negroid1860

kink1865

Sam1867

Rastus1882

schvartze1886

race man1896

possum1900

shine1908

jigaboo1909

smoke1913

golliwog1916

jazzbo1918

boogie1923

jig1924

melanoderm1924

spade1928

jit1931

Zulu1931

eight ball1932

Afro1942

nigra1944

spook1945

munt1948

Tom1956

boot1957

soul brother1957

nig-nog1959

member1962

pork chop1963

splib1964

blood1965

non-voter1966

moolinyan1967

Oreo1968

boogaloo1972

pongo1972

moolie1988

?1775 in F. Moore Songs & Ballads Amer. Revol. (1856) 100 The women ran, the darkeys too.

1824 National Advocate (N. Y.) 11 Aug. Before the supper was served, the darkeys were all caught.

1881 Dublin (Georgia) Post 12 Jan. The darkeys, on the morning of the election, congregated at Maas' store and as soon as the polls were opened..voted.

1883 Cent. Mag. 27 132 The manners of a corn-field darky.

1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee i. 10 They held Sunday school for their own and the darkies' children.

1971 G. Lamming in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 20 Often in our green folly We mocked the celluloid display, How darkies south of civilization Clowned their ways to fame.

1976 Post 13 June 4 The poor madame was fed up. What, Darkies in the same line as Wit mense?

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. iv. 81 Was it something about not taking on the darkies as conductors?

2019 @krishtun_ 29 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Boyyy, you would've fallen in love countless times today. Bare sweet darkies!

b. Australian and New Zealand. An Aboriginal, Maori, or Pasifika person; (more generally) any dark-skinned indigenous person. Now colloquial and offensive or derogatory.

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1845 Parramatta Chron. 12 Apr. Information reaching the settlement, the Military and Police were started in pursuit, but before arriving at the scene of action the Darkies had made themselves scarce.

1863 T. Moser Mahoe Leaves 31 ‘Halloa’, cried Harry, as we pulled up our horses about a mile from the pah, ‘there go a string of darkies a-head.’

1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Mar. 17/2 Near each town is a ‘black's reserve’, and here the darkie must reside, under penalty of losing the State ration and blanket.

2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Late ed.) 35 We cannot move any further forward because we're trapped by the great white Australian mythology of the useless, lazy darkies.

c. A dark-skinned person of other origin. Now colloquial and often offensive or derogatory.As at sense A. 2a, the offensiveness of the term darkie varies depending on the speaker and context. It may be used humorously, affectionately, or self-deprecatingly by a dark-skinned speaker, but is generally considered offensive or derogatory when used by a white or lighter-skinned speaker.

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1853 G. W. Earl Native Races Indian Archipel.: Papuans viii. 146 My attention having been aroused by a repeated mention of ‘darkies’ as forming part of the population, I was induced to make some inquiries.

1881 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 23 Apr. (Suppl.) 1/2 The Spaniard..the morose and taciturn ‘darkey’.

2018 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 May She would forever be ‘commemorated’ on the street as the first person who made way for darkies.

†3. English regional (Cumberland and London). A blind person. Also: a beggar who pretends to be blind. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > person

blindc1000

blindmanc1325

Samsonc1460

blindling1549

groper1699

darkie1807

1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 144 A darky glaum'd her by the hip.

1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 432/2 We called them as did the blind dodge, darkies.

†4. slang. A lantern with a movable panel that can be used to conceal the light; = dark lantern n. 1a. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > with a slide to hide light

blind lantern1581

dark lantern1612

darkie1811

guy1811

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Darkee Stow the darkee, and bolt, the cove of the crib is fly; hide the dark lanthorn and run away, the master of the house knows that we are here.

1819 Times 20 Oct. The robber then retired, and said to a comrade—‘Light the darky.’

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxii. 39 ‘Crape, keys, centre-bits, darkies—nothing forgotten?’ inquired Toby.

1840 Era 2 Mar. 313/3 Mr. Coombe: What did he mean by the darky?—Witness: A dark lantern.

B. adj. Originally U.S. Now colloquial and often derogatory or offensive. See senses at A. 2 for information on the offensiveness of darkie, which varies depending on the speaker and context.

1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or belonging to a black or dark-skinned person or people’.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to

Moresco?1551

blacka1652

Negro1653

negroish1746

niggerish1825

darkie1839

dinge1848

niggery1855

Negrotic1863

negritic1870

Nigritic1889

melanoderm1926

soul1960

Nubian1971

1839 Dearborn County Democrat (Aurora, Indiana) 18 Apr. Being called upon to testify in the case of a darkey skirmish, he was asked by the counsel if he saw defendant kick the plaintiff?

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 24 I'd an idee thet they were built arter the darkie fashion all.

1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 114 I wish de legislatur would set dis darkie free, Oh! what a happy place den de darkie land would be.

1884 19th Cent. Feb. 246 A coffin of curious darkey workmanship.

1931 Mil. Engineer 23 77/2 A regiment of negro engineers was feverishly working to stiffen up the road bed and, in the hum of darky voices, this what I heard.

2013 Sc. Express (Nexis) 24 Mar. We already knew [he] was a bad sort when he referred to Bessie Smith as ‘darkie music’.

2. Of a person: black or dark-skinned.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective]

blackOE

Morian1504

African1548

Negro1593

black Morian1631

neger1657

Ethiopian1684

nigger1689

Hubshee1698

Kaffir1731

Nigritian1757

Ethiopic1778

dingy1785

blackamoor1813

nigger-looking1837

darkie1840

Negroid1844

Negroloid1844

dinge1848

Melanian1861

negroish1861

Negroidal1878

Africanoid1885

chocolate?1886

melanodermic1924

nigra1938

tan1950

1840 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 12 Feb. Your very name, Millik-an, Millik-an, sounds porkish, and reminds us of certain darkey milk peddlers in New-York city, who trundle their carts along and below out ‘Millik! Millik!! Millik!!!’

1878 Spirit of Times 16 Feb. 38/3 Rochester rolls his eyes, stiffens his muscles, sets his jaw, and altogether acts like a darkey stableman who sees a spook.

1936 Discovery Oct. 308/2 The simple words of the darkie mother.

1975 R. Hall Place among People 219 If its the darkie woman who comes out first, we grab her.

2019 Sowetan (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. This was a confusing development for me as a darkie woman.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	darkie
释义	darkien.adj. Brit. /ˈdɑːki/, U.S. /ˈdɑrki/, Australian English /ˈdʌːki/, New Zealand English /ˈdʌːki/ Forms: 1700s–1800s darkey, 1700s–1800s darkee, 1800s– darkie, 1800s– darky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark adj., -y suffix⁶. Etymology: < dark adj. + -y suffix⁶. A. n. †1. slang. Night; evening, twilight. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] nighteOE nightertalec1300 darkc1400 nightertimec1425 night-timec1430 night-tidea1500 night-season1530 darkmans?1536 Nox1567 moonshine1652 darkie?1738 the watches of the night1826 nite1928 bat-flight1934 ?1738 Moll King (engraving) (Yale Univ., Lewis Walpole Libr. 738.00.00.03+) (caption) Who had you in your Ken last Darkee? 1754 D. O'Neale Mem. Life & Remarkable Exploits 18 I made the best Use of my Horse for that Darkey and the next. 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 124 Bless your eyes and limbs..I don't come here every darkey. 1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 363 He's coming at darkey just to see the beauty of things. 2. a. Originally North American. A dark-skinned person of sub-Saharan African origin or descent. Now colloquial and often offensive or derogatory (see note).In early use the term darkie did not itself have offensive or derogatory connotations, and was considered a neutral term for a black person (although the contexts of its use were often highly derogatory). The offensiveness of the term now varies: in British, South African, and American English, for instance, it is generally considered to be a racial slur when used by a white speaker, but the sense can be more neutral or positive when used by a black speaker and may be humorous or affectionate in tone. In some territories in the Caribbean where darkie refers specifically to a dark-skinned black person (esp. a woman), it is not considered offensive or derogatory and is often used of someone considered attractive (see e.g. quot. 2019); cf. browning n.⁴, lightie n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 ?1775 in F. Moore Songs & Ballads Amer. Revol. (1856) 100 The women ran, the darkeys too. 1824 National Advocate (N. Y.) 11 Aug. Before the supper was served, the darkeys were all caught. 1881 Dublin (Georgia) Post 12 Jan. The darkeys, on the morning of the election, congregated at Maas' store and as soon as the polls were opened..voted. 1883 Cent. Mag. 27 132 The manners of a corn-field darky. 1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee i. 10 They held Sunday school for their own and the darkies' children. 1971 G. Lamming in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 20 Often in our green folly We mocked the celluloid display, How darkies south of civilization Clowned their ways to fame. 1976 Post 13 June 4 The poor madame was fed up. What, Darkies in the same line as Wit mense? 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. iv. 81 Was it something about not taking on the darkies as conductors? 2019 @krishtun_ 29 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Feb. 2020) Boyyy, you would've fallen in love countless times today. Bare sweet darkies! b. Australian and New Zealand. An Aboriginal, Maori, or Pasifika person; (more generally) any dark-skinned indigenous person. Now colloquial and offensive or derogatory. ΚΠ 1845 Parramatta Chron. 12 Apr. Information reaching the settlement, the Military and Police were started in pursuit, but before arriving at the scene of action the Darkies had made themselves scarce. 1863 T. Moser Mahoe Leaves 31 ‘Halloa’, cried Harry, as we pulled up our horses about a mile from the pah, ‘there go a string of darkies a-head.’ 1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Mar. 17/2 Near each town is a ‘black's reserve’, and here the darkie must reside, under penalty of losing the State ration and blanket. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Late ed.) 35 We cannot move any further forward because we're trapped by the great white Australian mythology of the useless, lazy darkies. c. A dark-skinned person of other origin. Now colloquial and often offensive or derogatory.As at sense A. 2a, the offensiveness of the term darkie varies depending on the speaker and context. It may be used humorously, affectionately, or self-deprecatingly by a dark-skinned speaker, but is generally considered offensive or derogatory when used by a white or lighter-skinned speaker. ΚΠ 1853 G. W. Earl Native Races Indian Archipel.: Papuans viii. 146 My attention having been aroused by a repeated mention of ‘darkies’ as forming part of the population, I was induced to make some inquiries. 1881 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 23 Apr. (Suppl.) 1/2 The Spaniard..the morose and taciturn ‘darkey’. 2018 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 May She would forever be ‘commemorated’ on the street as the first person who made way for darkies. †3. English regional (Cumberland and London). A blind person. Also: a beggar who pretends to be blind. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > person blindc1000 blindmanc1325 Samsonc1460 blindling1549 groper1699 darkie1807 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 144 A darky glaum'd her by the hip. 1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 432/2 We called them as did the blind dodge, darkies. †4. slang. A lantern with a movable panel that can be used to conceal the light; = dark lantern n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > with a slide to hide light blind lantern1581 dark lantern1612 darkie1811 guy1811 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Darkee Stow the darkee, and bolt, the cove of the crib is fly; hide the dark lanthorn and run away, the master of the house knows that we are here. 1819 Times 20 Oct. The robber then retired, and said to a comrade—‘Light the darky.’ 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxii. 39 ‘Crape, keys, centre-bits, darkies—nothing forgotten?’ inquired Toby. 1840 Era 2 Mar. 313/3 Mr. Coombe: What did he mean by the darky?—Witness: A dark lantern. B. adj. Originally U.S. Now colloquial and often derogatory or offensive. See senses at A. 2 for information on the offensiveness of darkie, which varies depending on the speaker and context. 1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or belonging to a black or dark-skinned person or people’. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to Moresco?1551 blacka1652 Negro1653 negroish1746 niggerish1825 darkie1839 dinge1848 niggery1855 Negrotic1863 negritic1870 Nigritic1889 melanoderm1926 soul1960 Nubian1971 1839 Dearborn County Democrat (Aurora, Indiana) 18 Apr. Being called upon to testify in the case of a darkey skirmish, he was asked by the counsel if he saw defendant kick the plaintiff? 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 24 I'd an idee thet they were built arter the darkie fashion all. 1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 114 I wish de legislatur would set dis darkie free, Oh! what a happy place den de darkie land would be. 1884 19th Cent. Feb. 246 A coffin of curious darkey workmanship. 1931 Mil. Engineer 23 77/2 A regiment of negro engineers was feverishly working to stiffen up the road bed and, in the hum of darky voices, this what I heard. 2013 Sc. Express (Nexis) 24 Mar. We already knew [he] was a bad sort when he referred to Bessie Smith as ‘darkie music’. 2. Of a person: black or dark-skinned. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] blackOE Morian1504 African1548 Negro1593 black Morian1631 neger1657 Ethiopian1684 nigger1689 Hubshee1698 Kaffir1731 Nigritian1757 Ethiopic1778 dingy1785 blackamoor1813 nigger-looking1837 darkie1840 Negroid1844 Negroloid1844 dinge1848 Melanian1861 negroish1861 Negroidal1878 Africanoid1885 chocolate?1886 melanodermic1924 nigra1938 tan1950 1840 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 12 Feb. Your very name, Millik-an, Millik-an, sounds porkish, and reminds us of certain darkey milk peddlers in New-York city, who trundle their carts along and below out ‘Millik! Millik!! Millik!!!’ 1878 Spirit of Times 16 Feb. 38/3 Rochester rolls his eyes, stiffens his muscles, sets his jaw, and altogether acts like a darkey stableman who sees a spook. 1936 Discovery Oct. 308/2 The simple words of the darkie mother. 1975 R. Hall Place among People 219 If its the darkie woman who comes out first, we grab her. 2019 Sowetan (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. This was a confusing development for me as a darkie woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?1738
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