(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.
Parky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
(2) Instead, Fox wrote of how, after seven years of denial and depression, he gradually came to terms with his diagnosis, set up the Michael J Fox Foundation, gave up drinking and started advocating on behalf of what he calls "Parkies".
(3) Well I would say I am because Parky lives down in London, but I still live in the town.
(4) This makes me feel more in control of my Parkinson’s, because I know more about my condition and better understand why I am feeling really “Parky” after a night of bad sleep.
(5) It gets quite parky in January, especially when it snows, so take a nice warm coat.