an old-fashioned word from the 19th century often used by women and high class society back then to describe a negro, originally a negro slave; a word most often used by southern women and effete gentlemen who thought the more commonly accepted word nigger (back then) was a bit low-class and pedestrian; a polite word for a nigger slave memorialized in song by Stephen C. Foster's tunes like O Susanna, My Old Kentucky Home, and Old Folks at Home.
Scarlett: A proper southern lady always uses the word darkie when referring to her negro slaves.
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. There all a bunch of lazy niggers to me.
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. There all a bunch of lazy niggers to me.
by Jason Corrigan June 27, 2008
White male 1: Have you seen the new neighbors
White male 2: No, but I heard they were Darkies
White male 1: EW! THERE NIGGERS!!!! *VOMITS* (Vine Boom)
White male 2: No, but I heard they were Darkies
White male 1: EW! THERE NIGGERS!!!! *VOMITS* (Vine Boom)
by Bussy Sluper November 16, 2021
A term used by the older generation, due to their socialisation and ignorance, to describe people with dark skin or black people. Not used as a term of mallice, simply due to lack of metropolitan society in the inter war period
Ken: Ooh, i like big brother me, derek's my fave
Grandma: Which one's Derek? He's the err... darkie, is he?
Grandma: Which one's Derek? He's the err... darkie, is he?
by paulh July 26, 2005
by J E Walker April 30, 2003
An older, somewhat funnier term for a black person. Though taboo in America (much like nigger, spick, wet back, sand nigger, chink, gook, jap) it is still socially acceptable in England.
by Pants God January 10, 2007
A brand of toothpaste displaying an African-American male with very black skin and very white teeth on the tube. Discontinued in the 1980s.
I was startled to see what seemed a brand-new tube of "Darkie" brand toothpaste in Tom's medicine cabinet; I didn't think it was available anymore.
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
a remote control for an electronic device. origins coming obviously from the fact that in the days prior to remote controls, the black servants would "help out" by changing stations or adjusting the volume of radios, televisions, phonographs, etc...
by alex January 25, 2005