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blackies

/ˈblækiz/

blackies is the plural of blacky.

blackies is the plural of blackie.

Meaning of blacky

Noun

blacky (plural blackies)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur) A black person.
    • [I]t was agreed that two double beds were in requisition: — one for the host and hostess — and the other for the loving nigger and his wife, who it plainly appeared, had no inclination to be separated. Our hope was in a double bed — the one which the blacky and his fairer half looked at with a...1836, Pedestres (pseud.), Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.), A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles through Wales and England (page 269)
    Synonyms:
    coon, nigger, wog

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Questions about blackies

What is blackies the plural of?
Blackies is the plural of blacky.
How do you pronounce blackies?
Blackies is pronounced /ˈblækiz/.

Words near blackies in the dictionary

  1. blackhouses
  2. Blackhurst
  3. Blackhursts
  4. Blackian
  5. blackie
  6. blackies
  7. blackified
  8. blackifies
  9. blackify
  10. blackifying
  11. blacking

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