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darkies

darkies is the plural of darky.

darkies is the plural of darkie.

Meaning of darky

Noun

darky (countable and uncountable, plural darkies)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) The time of darkness: night or dusk.
    • […] at Darky they buss them out of the Ground, that is, at Night they steal the Horses, then pike thirty or forty Straches that Darky, that is go thirty or forty Miles that Night, towards the next Gaff to fence them, […]1761, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, etc. MS. notes, page 39

Questions about darkies

What is darkies the plural of?
Darkies is the plural of darky.

Words near darkies in the dictionary

  1. darkhearted
  2. darkhorse
  3. darkhorse candidate
  4. darkhorse candidates
  5. darkie
  6. darkies
  7. darking
  8. darking up
  9. Darkinjung
  10. Darkins
  11. darkish

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