darkie

English

Etymology

dark +‎ -ie

Noun

darkie (plural darkies)

Alternative spelling of darkey
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:
  In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.

Anagrams

akerid, daiker, raiked

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