| 单词 | high yellow |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh yellow high yellow n. and adj. (also high yalla, high yaller, high yella) originally and chiefly U.S. (now usu. considered offensive) (a) n. a black or mixed-race person having light brown skin; (b) adj. of, relating, to, or designating such a person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 1910 Chicago Defender 17 Sept. 3/2 The P.O. Dude..who is crazy about a certain piano player (a high yellow) who lives on Dearborn. 1913 Sat. Evening Post 8 Nov. 10/1 He traded fer a straw hat an' commenced runnin' wid chocolate-browns. Huh! Nothin' won't suit Virgil now 'cep' de high yallers. 1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering iv. viii. 241 At present I should be living in a villa just outside Paris with a Japanese cook and a Zulu butler, with three highyaller kids getting ready to go to Eton. 1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board iii. 61 [He] had played and danced with various mulatto and ‘high yaller’ girls back home in Nashville. 1969 ‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass xviii. 158 The big high yellow nodded at him with impersonal cordiality. 1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter ii. vii. 169 There are nine white cheerleaders on the varsity squad, all so pretty, and one high yalla..first time in school history that a nonwhite girl has been so honored. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater xi. 72 Where the hell you hear that from?.. I'm high yellow to the core baby but you can see that I'm handling. < as lemmas |
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