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OFAY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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OFAY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Example Sentences · “You better tell your little ofay kid friend move along.” · After Norman Mailer called Baldwin “too charming a writer to be major,” Baldwin ...
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ofay, n. & adj. meanings, etymology and more
ofay, n. & adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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ofay
ofay U.S. slang (chiefly used by Blacks). (ˈəʊfeɪ) [Orig. unknown: the balance of probability is that it is a word of African origin (but the precise attribution in quot. 1932 lacks foundation). The suggestion that it is Pig Latin for foe seems no more than an implausible guess.] In the use of Ameri...
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Ofay - Apple Music
Listen to music by Ofay on Apple Music. Find top songs and albums by Ofay including Dirty Gucci, Haters and more.
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ofay - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A possible point of origin is Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary, where the word is defined as "Policeman or law enforcement, 'The Man'". Pronunciation. edit.
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Ofayé
The Ofayé (also spelled as Opaié or Ofayé) are an indigenous people of Central Brazil. Most Ofayé live in a reservation located in the municipality of Brasilândia in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
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When Slurs Boost Scores - Los Angeles Times
Acho Nwana, a New Yorker of Nigerian origin, used an ethnic slur the other day. The word was ofay. It's black slang for white person--an obscure term, but ...
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ofay - Women's Media Center
ofay. this disparaging term for a white person evidently comes from the pig Latin for "foe" (Stuart Berg Flexner, I Hear America Talking). SHARE. [SHARE].
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Ofay - Oxford Reference
noun US derog, mainly African-American. A white person. Also as adjective. 1899–. B.Holiday Most of the ofays, the ...
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A Negro and an Ofay: 9781943402670: Gardner, Danny: Books
In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis.
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Tanuj Solanki | I read the word 'ofay' for the first time in Brian Dillon's ...
Among the many sentences that Dillon's picked to write essays on, there's one by James Baldwin, in which he's called Norman Mailer an 'ofay cat' ...
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Ofayé language
The Ofayé or Opaye language, also Ofaié-Xavante, Opaié-Shavante, forms its own branch of the Macro-Jê languages. Phonology
The consonantal inventory of Ofayé is as follows.
The vowel inventory of Ofayé is as follows.
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oaf
▪ I. oaf1 (əʊf) Also 7–8 oph, 8 oaph. pl. oafs (also 9 oaves). [A phonetic variant of auf, earlier aulf: see also ouph.] An elf's child, a goblin child, a supposed changeling left by the elves or fairies; hence, a misbegotten, deformed, or idiot child; a half-wit, fool, dolt, booby, as being by infe...
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off-, prefix meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
Please submit your feedback for off-, prefix. Please include your email address if you are happy to be contacted about your feedback. OUP will not use this email address for any other purpose. Section (required) Feedback (required) Submit. Citation details. Factsheet for off-, prefix. Browse entry. Nearby entries. ofay, n. & adj. 1899- ...
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