▪ I. blacky, n. colloq.
(ˈblækɪ)
Also blackie, -ey.
[f. black, with -y4, dim., as in Tommy.]
1. A Black, a Negro: often used without the article after the fashion of a proper name. Cf. darky. Now Hist. or derogatory.
| 1815 Moore Epist. Tom Crib 1 Aye, even Blackey cries shame. 1854 Thackeray Newcomes i. 35 He swore he would demolish blackey's ugly face. 1863 Athenæum No. 1858 737/2 Overseers who..flog their blackies unmercifully. |
2. dial. and colloq. = Black one; also = blackbird.
| 1876 Mrs. Francis in W. W. Skeat S. Warwickshire Words 124 Blackie, a blackbird. 1890 A. J. Armstrong Ingleside Musings 84, I listen to the blackie's note. 1940 F. Kitchen Brother to Ox i. 3 Every bush along the carriage drive owned a blackie or a thrush. |
▪ II. blacky, a.
(ˈblækɪ)
[f. black a. + -y1.]
Somewhat black, blackish.
| 1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 75 From his fell mouth such blacky belches came. 1877 M. Laffan Hon. Miss Ferrard I. vii. 234 Of jute and blacky-brown silk. |