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whitey

Syllables: whit·ey/ˈwaɪti/

whitey is the alternative form of whity.

Noun

whitey (plural whiteys or whities)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, especially African-American Vernacular) A white person, a person of Western European descent.
    • I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
    • She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels
  2. (UK, slang) A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.
    • (Drug users consuming this much alcohol are either slumpped in the corner having a whitey or already on their way to casualty in an ambulance.)2002 April 11, mi...@emgee.demon.co.uk, uk.politics.drugs (Usenet)
    • 'Youths' happily do both and they're almost seen as weird if they don't smoke themselves into a whitey with their mates.2007 February 13, Baroness Edwina Frogbucket, “Cameron calls for harder line on cannabis use”, in uk.legal (Usenet)

Meaning of whity

Adjective

whity (comparative whitier, superlative whitiest)

  1. Close to white in colour.
    Synonyms:
    whitish

Synonyms of whitey

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Forms of whitey

Adjective
comparativewhitier
superlativewhitiest
alternative formwhitie
alternative formwhity
alternative formyt
alternative formYT
Noun
pluralwhiteys
pluralwhities

Origin of whitey

From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).

Words formed from whitey

Words that rhyme with whitey

Questions about whitey

What does whitey mean?
Whitey means a white person, a person of Western European descent.
What is whitey the alternative form of?
Whitey is the alternative form of whity.
What part of speech is whitey?
Whitey is a noun.
How do you pronounce whitey?
Whitey is pronounced /ˈwaɪti/.
What is the plural of whitey?
The plural of whitey is whiteys.

Words near whitey in the dictionary

  1. whitewoods
  2. whitework
  3. whiteworm
  4. whiteworms
  5. whitewort
  6. whitey
  7. whitey tighties
  8. whiteys
  9. whiteywood
  10. whiteywoods
  11. Whitfield

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitey (page history and authors); whity (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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