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halfy

halfy is the alternative spelling of halfie.

Meaning of halfie

Noun

halfie (plural halfies)

  1. (informal) A person of mixed-race ancestry.
    • But, in this story, it is perfectly acceptable for a young Latino man to choose to date, and to want to date a brown girl, a white girl, a black girl or a halfie.2003, Bridget A. Kevane, Latino Literature in America, page 78
  2. (slang) A half-smoked cigarette.

Forms of halfy

pluralhalfies

Questions about halfy

What is halfy the alternative spelling of?
Halfy is the alternative spelling of halfie.

Words near halfy in the dictionary

  1. halfwittedness
  2. halfwittery
  3. halfwizard
  4. halfword
  5. halfwords
  6. halfy
  7. halfyear
  8. halfyearly
  9. halfyears
  10. Halh
  11. Haliburton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halfy (page history and authors); halfie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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