What's the difference between barky and darky?

Barky


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with, or containing, bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 6 pregnant and 8 non-pregnant local Barki ewes were subcutaneously inoculated with different doses of virus isolated from Sharkia Province.
  • (2) "Barkis is willin'," I told Peggotty on my arrival at her upside-down boat on the beach.
  • (3) Bluetongue virus type 16, isolated from sheep in Egypt, was injected to 4 normally cycling Barki ewes and caused high levels of inhibin.
  • (4) "Tis a shame that though Barkis was once willin' he is no longer able."
  • (5) The coach left for Great Yarmouth and the driver, Barkis, engaged me in conversation.

Darky


Definition:

  • (n.) A negro.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He did not even tell his loyal and long-suffering wife Grace, always known as Darkie, who found out about it second hand.
  • (2) But you can't update a person in the same way as you can a film or a work of literature, scrubbing out the "gippos" and the "darkies" nestling there in their lexicon, hooked firmly on to their history like a tic on a cat.
  • (3) "The memorabilia gives you a much better understanding of how one set of images of black people was constantly reinforced - the lazy sleeping darkie, the eternal laughter, and on and on."
  • (4) In Maclean – a northern New South Wales town on the banks of the Clarence river, where racist epithets like “coons” and “darkies” can still be heard in everyday banter – Norma, an Indigenous woman, and Attwater, a white concreter, had bonded for years over alcohol.
  • (5) As late as 1989, Colgate-Palmolive was producing a toothpaste for sale in Asia called "Darkie", which bore the image of a smiling black man.

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