"lightskin" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From light + skin.",
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      "form": "lightskins",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "darkskin"
        }
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "lightskinned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams, “Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City, Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, page 193:",
          "text": "A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin man of little enterprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 (October 8) on WWE NXT, NXT champion Trick Williams replying to former North American Champion Wes Lee after being interrupted",
          "text": "Woah, hold on there lightskin. Now your accolades should speak for themselves, but I know your type, dog!"
        }
      ],
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        "A black person who has relatively light-coloured skin."
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        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
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          "skin",
          "skin"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lightie"
        }
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fair-skinned"
        },
        {
          "word": "light-skin"
        }
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  "word": "lightskin"
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      "word": "lightskinned"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From light + skin.",
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    {
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "lightie"
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        {
          "word": "darkskin"
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        {
          "ref": "1941, W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams, “Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City, Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, page 193:",
          "text": "A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin man of little enterprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 (October 8) on WWE NXT, NXT champion Trick Williams replying to former North American Champion Wes Lee after being interrupted",
          "text": "Woah, hold on there lightskin. Now your accolades should speak for themselves, but I know your type, dog!"
        }
      ],
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        "A black person who has relatively light-coloured skin."
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          "word": "fair-skinned"
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  "word": "lightskin"
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