Usually means: Offensive term for Black person.
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  1. darkey: Collins English Dictionary
  2. darkey: Vocabulary.com
  3. darkey: Wordnik
  4. darkey: Wiktionary
  5. darkey: Dictionary.com
  6. Darkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. darkey: Rhymezone
  8. darkey: FreeDictionary.org
  9. darkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. darkey: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. darkey, darkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. darkey: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (darkey)

▸ noun:  (dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.
▸ noun:  (slang, obsolete) A dark lantern.

Similar:
dinge, ditsoon, blackdar, dighter, doodoohead, dubsman, dimbo, dykery, Downie, dimber damber, more...

Opposite:
light, bright, pale, fair, white

Phrases:
Darkey Kelly, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, poor, southern, young, dis, aged, time, american, ole, ancient

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Similar:
dinge, ditsoon, blackdar, dighter, doodoohead, dubsman, dimbo, dykery, Downie, dimber damber, more...

Opposite:
light, bright, pale, fair, white

Phrases:
Darkey Kelly, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, poor, southern, young, dis, aged, time, american, ole, ancient



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