(dated, _, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.
1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune:
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(slang, obsolete) A dark lantern.
: Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys w…
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(Australia, NZ, now, offensive) A luderick, blackfish, parore ().
1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune:
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