1811 W. Dunlap Africans i. ii. 111 What's the matter, whitey?

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 21 The instant blacky perceives whity beating a retreat, he vociferates after him—‘Go along, you dam rascal.’

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master vi. 71 Shall I not say that these bands of desperadoes still found among the ‘poor whitey’, ‘dirt-eater’ class are the outcroppings of the bad blood sent from England in convict-ships?

1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xi. 138 Get to hell away from me! You Whities stink!

1977 New Scientist 9 June 603/1 The whities have plenty of time for pirouetting around in the sun.

1984 A. F. Loewenstein This Place 91 Girl, you gotta use whitey, aint you learned that much by now?

2010 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer 13 Hours xxxvii. 310 Are you too la-di-da working here with the whiteys and I'm just a common hotnot from Atlantis?

1912 A. McCormick Words from Wild-wood vi. 82 I had thrashed the stream..in the hope of getting a ‘whitey’.

1966 L. B. Graham I, Momolu xiii. 140 As the sun rose higher in the sky and looked down into the water, the snappers and whiteys and striped tiger fish moved out into deeper waters.

2000 S. Goodrich in J. I. Merritt Trout Dreams iv. 53 This river's got lots of whiteys.

2011 L. R. Mayer Colorado's Best Fly Fishing xiv. 213 Whiteys are notorious for holding deep on the bottom in huge numbers.

1993 Guardian 16 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 12/3 ‘Go on, have a Whitey,’ they say. God knows what a Whitey is, though someone described it to me as a state where you're either going to pass out, be sick, or have a cosmic revelation.

1994 Re: Whitey!! in alt.hemp (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Nov. Everyone I have ever talked to who has smoked hash has had a whitey.

1998 Pi (Univ. Coll. London Union) Oct. 14/1 We recorded tidbits of our binges... We captured live footage of my whitey—which was quickly erased.

2002 I. Welsh Porno (2003) xvi. 93 She's..pretty fucked on that skunk and somebody should sit with her in case she throws a whitey.

2011 Daily Star (Nexis) 26 Apr. 12 She'll probably pull a whitey after her second glass of champers and vom everywhere.

1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) ii. met. iii. 26 Whan Φebus..the light to spred begins, The star dimed..Pales her whitty lookes [L. albentes..vultus].

1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 401 A bird with a whitie head is called Pengwin.

1850 London Jrnl. Med. 2 702 There was a dirty whity uneven vegetation, of the size of a pea, on the tricuspid valve.

1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. 139 Lofty rooms of a whity style of decoration.

1897 J. Hocking Birthright xiii. 175 She fixed her whitey, shining eyes upon me.

1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World (1911) ii. 45 Whity mud, and red mud, and turf on them, and the fine sands of the sea.

2001 D. J. Hawkins Fish Kisser xii. 270 He was sort of fat with whitey hair.

1798 Weekly Mag. 19 May 93/2 Whity man he came from far, Sailing o'er the briny flood, Who, with help of British tar, Buys up human flesh and blood.

1816 W. Davies Jrnl. 7 Mar. (1835) 18 As we were walking through..Yongro, some of the inhabitants ran to shake hands, especially with a ‘whity woman’.

1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 169 If a Maori is asked if he ‘would like a whitey-man for ki-ki (food),’ he will always answer ‘Whitey-man no good ki-ki—too much the salt.’

1915 J. D. Gillilan Trail Tales 91 Bad Injun ketchy me some day; no liky me; you savy me liky whity man.

1968 Proc. 10th Ann. Res. Conf. 1967 (Univ. Calif., Los Angeles, Inst. Industr. Relations) 24 Sentences which bore an indelible stamp of ‘Whitey’ attitudes. Sentence after sentence read as if written by Mr. Charley himself.

1975 R. Reinhold Voodoo Schwartz in Scene 3 54 Reverend, I called you to help me git outa this here whitey house and back to my brothers.

1982 E. Eaton Shaman & Med. Wheel 139 Indian..children, dancing to horrible whitey music of the worthless kind.

2009 H. Cross Spilt Milk, Black Coffee (2010) 63 Ashfaq don't bother much about the jibes.., he just thinks the whitey kids are jealous of us lot.

1900 Akaroa (N.Z.) Mail 29 May 2/2 The whitey-wood leaves are glistening bright.

1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 309 Half an hour later when she gets back to the cabin she finds him sitting on the little porch looking out at a ponga palm and a small whitey-wood.

2013 Daily News (New Plymouth, N. Z.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 12 The first tree on the left as you enter the carpark is a handsome whiteywood with masses of tiny pale yellow flowers.

1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxxi. sig. E1^v If suche a read coloure drawe nere to grennes or as it were to graynes more then to whitnes, declareth blacke choler, and hys qualityes: and if to subtill citrinnes (as it were to whyttynesse) whiche is wonte commonly to bee in healthfull persons, and thys wythout greate matter, declareth the sheading of nature.

1862 D. M. Mulock Domest. Stories 262 I notice..the workmen with their linen sleeves and aprons, and pale faces, giving one a general notion of whiteyness.