whitey
/ˈwaɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of whity.
Example Sentences
- "a whitey-brown colour"
- "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"
- "She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw"
- ""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.""
- "Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?"
- "(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.)"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- Proto-Germanic *hwītaz Proto-West Germanic *hwīt Old English hwīt Middle English whit English white English -y English whitey From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).
Usage
- Derogatory
- Offensive
- British usage
- Slang