Stepin Fetchitn.

/ˈstɛp(ə)n ˈfɛtʃɪt/

Forms: Also Steppin Fetchit.

Etymology: < Stepin Fetchit, the stage-name of Lincoln Theodore Perry (1902–85), a popular black vaudeville actor noted for playing a series of fawning characters in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. For earlier uses of the noun phrase step and fetch it applied to persons, see Eng. Dial. Dict., Dial. Notes (1903) 2 301, (1914) 4 113.

U.S.

A type of a shuffling, obsequious, black servant. Hence, any servile black man; an Uncle Tom. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > black

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Stepin Fetchit1940

1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 1 Feb. (1964) 597 This way of looking at war gives great scope for comedy without bringing in Stepin Fetchit and Hattie McDaniel as faithful negro slaves.

1951 H. G. McWhiney & F. B. Simkins in Negro Hist. Bull. 14 109/1 The mere mention of a ghost makes him shake as actively as Step'in Fetch'it under the influence of an Arctic breeze.

1967 P. Welles Babyhip xvii. 121 He shrugged his shoulders in his phoney Steppin Fetchit pose and went home leaving a perfectly groovy [chess] strategy unfinished.

1968 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 56/3 He talks disparagingly of comics and other artists who don't fill the role of rebel. Among these he lists Danny Thomas, Jack Benny, Woody Allen and ‘Stepin Fetchit Negroes doing the same thing under a new veneer’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	stepin fetchit
释义	Stepin Fetchitn. /ˈstɛp(ə)n ˈfɛtʃɪt/ Forms: Also Steppin Fetchit. Etymology: < Stepin Fetchit, the stage-name of Lincoln Theodore Perry (1902–85), a popular black vaudeville actor noted for playing a series of fawning characters in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. For earlier uses of the noun phrase step and fetch it applied to persons, see Eng. Dial. Dict., Dial. Notes (1903) 2 301, (1914) 4 113. U.S. A type of a shuffling, obsequious, black servant. Hence, any servile black man; an Uncle Tom. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > black black boy1594 boy1625 Cape boy1892 Stepin Fetchit1940 1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 1 Feb. (1964) 597 This way of looking at war gives great scope for comedy without bringing in Stepin Fetchit and Hattie McDaniel as faithful negro slaves. 1951 H. G. McWhiney & F. B. Simkins in Negro Hist. Bull. 14 109/1 The mere mention of a ghost makes him shake as actively as Step'in Fetch'it under the influence of an Arctic breeze. 1967 P. Welles Babyhip xvii. 121 He shrugged his shoulders in his phoney Steppin Fetchit pose and went home leaving a perfectly groovy [chess] strategy unfinished. 1968 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 56/3 He talks disparagingly of comics and other artists who don't fill the role of rebel. Among these he lists Danny Thomas, Jack Benny, Woody Allen and ‘Stepin Fetchit Negroes doing the same thing under a new veneer’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1940
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