darkie

dark +‎ -ie

darkie (plural darkies)

1. Alternative spelling of darkey
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 22, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 844076792:

     In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.

   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:

     My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.

• choke a darkie

• akerid, daiker, raiked