"blacky" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈblæki/ Forms: blackies [plural]
Rhymes: -æki Etymology: From black + -y (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|black|-y|pos2=diminutive suffix}} black + -y (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun}} blacky (plural blackies)
  1. (informal, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person. Tags: derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur Synonyms: coon [derogatory, offensive], nigger [derogatory, offensive], wog [derogatory, offensive], blackey, blackie Derived forms: blacky-white Coordinate_terms: whity (alt: whitey, whitie)

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          "ref": "1836, Pedestres (pseud.), Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.), A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles through Wales and England (page 269)",
          "text": "[I]t was agreed that two double beds were in requisition: — one for the host and hostess — and the other for the loving nigger and his wife, who it plainly appeared, had no inclination to be separated. Our hope was in a double bed — the one which the blacky and his fairer half looked at with a longing eye — but out of which he had no idea of turning: […]"
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          "ref": "1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91",
          "text": "Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.",
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