blacky-white

English

Noun

blacky-white (plural blacky-whites)

  1. (UK, obsolete, informal, offensive, ethnic slur) A Eurasian (person of mixed European and Asian ancestry).
    • 2015, Daniel P. Mannix, Peter Ryhiner, The Wildest Game, page 243:
      The captain, his face the color of a ripe tomato, leaned over the rail screaming insults at white men who married blacky-whites, the dishonesty of foreigners, and his opinion of the whole proceedings in general.
    • 2021, Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj, Anglo-Indian Identity, page 401:
      Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust.
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