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whitey
whitey
English
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Noun
whitey (plural whiteys or whities)
- (African American Vernacular, pejorative, ethnic slur) A white person, a person of European descent, a Caucasian.
- 1976, New York Magazine (volume 9, number 47, page 102)
- "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."
- 1997, Dave Chappelle, "Racism Connoisseur" on HBO Comedy Half-Hour:
- 1976, New York Magazine (volume 9, number 47, page 102)
- (Britain, slang) A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.
- 2002 April 11, mi...@emgee.demon.co.uk, uk.politics.drugs, Usenet:
- (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.)
- 2007 February 13, Baroness Edwina Frogbucket, “Cameron calls for harder line on cannabis use”, in uk.legal, 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 April 29, Mark Whiteley, uk.politics.drugs, Usenet:
- Ocasionaly things don't work quite as expected but seriously i can't remeber last time i had a "whitey" not for many years that a certainty.
- 2012, Jenny Fagan, The Panopticon, page 233:
- 'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said.
I handed him the crisps.
'I'm gonnae have a whitey,' he said and fucked off up to the toilet to be sick.
- 'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said.
- 2013, Lucy Prebble, The Effect, page 75:
- Tristan: I'm having a whitey.
He seems about to be sick.
Connie: You're on a placebo, Tristan, you're not on the drug.
- Tristan: I'm having a whitey.
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Synonyms
- (white person): cracker, honky, pecker, peckerwood, whitebread, wonderbread
- See Wikisaurus:white person
Meronyms
- (poor white person in the American South): cracker, hick, hillbilly, poor white trash, redneck, trailer trash, white trash
Related terms
- (of or relating to white people): white-bread, wonderbread