whitegirl

See also: white girl

English

Etymology

From white +‎ girl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

whitegirl (countable and uncountable, plural whitegirls)

1. (countable, US, slang, mildly pejorative) A young Caucasian female.
   • 1999 July, Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation, Cambridge: South End Press, →ISBN, page 116:

     My lovers have always been the environment that defined my color. With a Black lover in apartheid Boston I was seen as a whitegirl.

   • 2004 November 4, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OL:

     She walked deliberately up to the couple, and in a most coquettish way that would make any Latina feel enormous envy at the style which this gringa whitegirl was displaying, she patted Omaha on the arm.

   • 2009 September 30, Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 155:

     I hope it is a Whitegirl who's stolen from me, but that's unlikely. Someone would have seen her. A Whitegirl going in three Blackgirls' room. Even a friendly Whitegirl.

2. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Cocaine.