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語源

From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) +‎ -y (“forming diminutives”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈwaɪti/, /ˈʍaɪti/
• 韻: -aɪti
• ハイフネーション: whit‧ey

形容詞

whitey (comparative whitier, superlative whitiest)

1. Alternative form of whity.

   a whitey-brown colour

派生語

名詞

whitey (plural whiteys or whities)

1. (especially African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.

   Synonyms: cracker, honky, pecker, peckerwood, whitebread, wonderbread; see also Thesaurus:white person

   Coordinate terms: blackey, blackie, blacky, darkey

   • 1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox:

     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

   • 1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels:

     She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw

   • 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”, in HBO Comedy Half-Hour (television production):

     Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?

2. (British, 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.

   • 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.

参考

• lightie

アナグラム

• Withey