whitey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪti/
ipa: /ˈʍaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: whiteys
form: whities
form: whitie
form: whity
form: yt
form: YT
Etymology: From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: examples: text: 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 moon
ref: 1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox:
text: She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw
ref: 1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels:
text: "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."
ref: 1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 47, page 102:
text: Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?
ref: 1997, Dave Chappelle, “Racism Connoisseur”, in HBO Comedy Half-Hour (television production):
synonyms: word: cracker
word: honky
word: pecker
word: peckerwood
word: whitebread
word: wonderbread
word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
coordinate_terms: blackey
blackie
blacky
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: A white person, a person of Western European descent.
examples: text: (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.)
ref: 2002 April 11, mi...@emgee.demon.co.uk, uk.politics.drugs (Usenet):
text: 'Youths' happily do both and they're almost seen as weird if they don't smoke themselves into a whitey with their mates.
ref: 2007 February 13, Baroness Edwina Frogbucket, “Cameron calls for harder line on cannabis use”, in uk.legal (Usenet):
text: Ocasionaly^([sic]) things don't work quite as expected but seriously i can't remeber^([sic]) last time i had a "whitey" not for many years that a certainty.
ref: 2007 April 29, Mark Whiteley, uk.politics.drugs (Usenet):
text: '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.
ref: 2012, Jenny Fagan, The Panopticon, page 233:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Lucy Prebble, The Effect, page 75:
glosses: A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.