whitey

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whitey

  • /ˈwaɪti/
  • /ˈʍaɪti/

Rhymes with -aɪti

Where it comes from

From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).

adjective whitier · whitiest · whitie · whity · yt · YT

  1. alternative Alternative form of whity a whitey-brown colour

noun whiteys · whities · whitie · whity · yt · YT

  1. derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur A white person, a person of Western European descent. I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon

    Similar: cracker, honky, pecker, peckerwood, whitebread, wonderbread, abelungu, ang moh, Angrez, balanda, béké, bule

  2. UK, slang A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. (Drug users consuming this much alcohol are either slumpped in the corner having a whitey or already on their way to casualty in an ambulance.)

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@misc{whitey_2026,
  title = {whitey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whitey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}