lightie
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lightie (plural lighties)
- (South Africa, slang) Alternative form of lighty (“young man; boy”)
- (informal) A black person with relatively light-coloured skin.
- 2016, Rick Johnson, Heirloom Plantation, page 52:
- I looked up into that giant's eyes and while I saw curiosity there, I didn't see the anger and hatred I had seen in so many eyes of the black people as they looked down on a lightie.
- 2019, Derek Owusu, Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today:
- […] hood-famous Black men and members of their entourages, surrounded by a uniform of attractive young white women and the occasional ambiguous 'lightie.'