thanky
English
Interjection
thanky
- Eye dialect spelling of thank you, representing African American Vernacular English.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 143:
- “Thanky Ma’am. Ah hates dat woman lak poison. Keep her from round dis house. Her look lak uh white woman!
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 143:
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