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whitey

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈwaɪti//
  • //ˈʍaɪti//

A white person, a person of Western European descent.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of whityAlternative form of whity.

    a whitey-brown colour

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- Proto-Germanic *hwītaz Proto-West Germanic *hwīt Old English hwīt Middle English whit English white English -y English whitey From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).

noun

  1. 1

    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

    She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw

    "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."

    Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?

  2. 2

    slangA 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.)

    'Youths' happily do both and they're almost seen as weird if they don't smoke themselves into a whitey with their mates.

    Ocasionaly^([sic]) things don't work quite as expected but seriously i can't remeber^([sic]) last time i had a "whitey" not for many years that a certainty.

    'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said. I handed him the crisps. 'I'm gonnae have a whitey,' he said and fucked off up to the toilet to be sick.

Forms

plural
whiteys, whities
comparative
whitier
superlative
whitiest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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