swarthies
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]swarthies
- plural of swarthy
- 1900, The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire[1], page 70:
- Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain
- 1962, The Skipper[2], volume 22, page 21:
- Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.
- 1980, The secret of Sam Marlow: The Further Adventures of the Man with Bogart's Face[3], page 12:
- Hobby Lobby made a slight motion with his left hand and the swarthies froze in the desert.
- 1997, The Chariton Review, Volume 23, Issue 1[4], page 71:
- The swarthies just stood waiting for whatever was in the air. I wanted to get up and walk away. But I didn't even budge.
- 2010 Sympathy for the Devil page 366
- Real controversial stuff, sure, but you know what, he was actually in the dead center of polite opinion when it came to the Negroes and the swarthies and money-grubbing kikes and all those other lovely stereotypes.
- 2014 Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch page 52
- The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.
- 2015 Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting page 24
- A school friend of mine, Gavin, one of the swarthies, organised one May afternoon a tea party at his parents' house in Cheyne Walk.