homey n.1
1. (Aus./N.Z.) an Englishman; a British immigrant, esp. one newly arrived or still nostalgic for the ‘home country’.
Letters (1981) Dec. 15: He is a ‘homey’ who came out to Australia, buggered up a grocery shop, and came on to Norfolk. | letter in||
Eve. Post (Wellington) 11 June 4/5: ‘Homey’ asks: ‘Does the Government guarantee the money of depositers?’. | ||
Nor the Years Condemn 165: Don’t break your neck on it, and don’t mind if you’re called a Homie. After all, what does it mean? Somebody from Home. A bit sissy, but it could be worse. | ||
Cunninghams (1986) 21: But this homey Simmons was a loudmouth with a big opinion of himself. | ||
Truth (Wellington) 8 Apr. 9: I have never felt any hostility towards any ‘homie’ or ‘pommie’ until recently [DNZE]. | ||
Gun in My Hand 193: This joker’s wife, she was a Homey. | ||
Word for Word 181: He knew the men still regarded him as a Homey, though it was well over thirty years since he’d left the Old Country. | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 57/2: homey dismissive name for a person, usually a migrant, who nostalgically looks to Britain as home. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
2. (US black) a stay-at-home person.
N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 29 Mar. 13: A Lane is a Square, and a Square is a Homey and a Homey ain’t nowhere. | ||
Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 89: The Homey is on the lowest rung of the social ladder [...] The genuine hepcat has nothing but scorn and contempt for the ‘Homey.’ ‘How can he be so stupid.’ He’s a stay-at-home, he reads heavy books about the goings-on in the 14th and 15th Century, while drawing his breath in the 20th. |
3. (orig. US black) an affectionate dimin. of homeboy n. (4), used as n. or form of address.
N.Y. Amsterdam News 8 Feb. 20: The Big Face had to let the homies in the king’s row lay their larceny. | ||
Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 12: At the same time, homey, I’m eating onions and wiping my eyes. | ||
DAUL 100/1: Homey. (South; rare elsewhere, except among Negroes) A person from one’s neighborhood, home town, or State. | et al.||
Lead With Your Left (1958) 10: Relax, homie, and tell me exactly what you saw. | ||
Homosexual Society 94: It was rather like a ‘homie’ (a normal man) with his queer friend — it’s all quite nice but when is it going to stop and what’s going to win the 2.30 tomorrow? | ||
Farm (1968) 93: Little Junior came in [...] dragging along some of his Washington homies. | ||
Ripping and Running 140: Hey man, don’t play all that man, he’s my homey. | ||
Maledicta V:1+2 (Summer + Winter) 265: He’s at ease with a hood or a homey, a friend from the same home town and neighborhood. | ||
🎵 Cause you lost all your homey’s love. | ‘Fuck Wit Dre Day’||
Source Oct. 150: Neither Buddha nor his homie Prince [...] had seen it coming. [Ibid.] Nov. 112: Outside the West Coast, homie, you can dis it. | ||
Crumple Zone 166: You s’posed to be my homie an’ you teefed my story. | ||
Turning Angel 234: The girl told us Cyrus was wearing a bulletproof vest. His homeys confirmed that. | ||
Running the Books 6: Inmates exchange intricate handshakes and formal titles: OG, young G, boo, bro, baby boy, brutha, dude, cuz, dawg, P, G, daddy, pimpin’, nigga, man, thug thizzle, my boy, my man, homie. | ||
ThugLit July-Aug. [ebook] [T]he sharp-eyed alpha wolves left their tubby homey out of their precious plans. | ‘Having Chiqui’ in||
Finders Keepers (2016) 140: Where you been, homie? | ||
Razorblade Tears 151: ‘We in too deep now, homie’. |
4. (US campus) a partner in a casual sexual relationship.
Da Bomb 🌐 15: Homey, lover, friend: A noncommittal sexual relationship. |
5. a relative.
Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 homey n [...] 2. a relative. |
6. (US gang) a member of the same gang as oneself.
(con. 1990s) in One of the Guys 119: ‘Sometimes he cheat so I’m gonna put my homies before him’. |
In phrases
(US campus) a phr. indicating one’s refusal to cooperate with, consent to or accept something.
Six Out Seven (1994) 391: Some ole dude gimme dat shit one time an it fuck me up for a week! Homey don’t play dat no more! | ||
Sl. and Sociability 93: College students appropriated from In Living Color the expressions go on, girl, homey don’t play dat, and two snaps up. | ||
Portable Promised Land (ms.) 160: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Homie don’t play that. Kissmyblackass! |