peola
/piːˈəʊlə/US slang (frequently in African-American usage, with depreciative connotations)
noun
A light-skinned black person, especially a girl or young woman.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Zanesville Signal. Origin uncertain; probably from the name of PeolaJohnson, a light-skinned African American woman who attempts to pass as white in Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life and the 1934 film adaptation of the same name.
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