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Definition of Darky
1. Noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people.
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement, Ethnic Slur
Generic synonyms: Black, Black Person, Blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
Definition of Darky
1. n. A negro.
Definition of Darky
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of darkey) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Darky
1. a coloured person [n DARKIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darky
Literary usage of Darky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of a Great Detective: Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray by John Wilson Murray (1905)
"In fact there were uncanny, absurd tales among some coloured folk that darky
George knew a five-footed rabbit and in its jaw was a shark's tooth, ..."
2. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"BEANS OR PEAS INSUFFICIENCY OF darky TESTIMONY A GUARD KILLS A PRISONER ...
Once an old darky, sent into the prison on some errand, was summoned to decide a ..."
3. America as I Saw it: Or America Revisited by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1913)
"When I visited the darky prison in New Orleans, among the folk who were waiting
trial were nearly thirty who had been arrested for murder, the youngest of ..."
4. Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton (1890)
"He certainly played " darky parts," such as they were, for a number of BARNEY
WILLIAMS IN DANDY JIM. ..."
5. Life in Dixie's Land; Or, South in Secession-time by James Roberts Gilmore (1863)
"As I turned to follow, I slipped a half-dollar into the hand of the darky who
was holding my horse, and asked him to put her again into the stable. ..."
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