ashy adj.
(US black) of the body or a body-part, pale, ashen-coloured.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: I tell you I was ashy. | |
| Northerner 217: Poor devils, they were ashy with fear. The black ones get about the color of the ashes in my pipe. | |
| ‘A Word-List From Virginia’ in DN IV:iii 180: ashy, adj. Provoked; angry. ‘What are you looking so ashy [pale with rage?] about?’. | |
| Negro Workaday Songs 69: His head was big an’ nappy, / An’ ashy wus his skin. | |
| Die, Nigger Die! 20: [B]eing smart wasn’t enough if your hair was uncombed, your clothes a little dirty, your skin a little ashy and your manners not the best. | |
| Black and White Baby 291: She's had her bath and [...] oiled her legs so they won’t look ashy. | |
| Paco’s Story (1987) 117: Jonesy’s ashy, caramel-colored skin, pink nails and bright black eyes. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 75: Get away from my lotion, you Black-ashy bitch! | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 251: Sistuhgirl’s desire [...] to see that oily, ashy, greasy, eight-ball black boy kept clean. | |
| Sellout (2016) 159: A hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black. | |
| Word Is Bone [ebook] [He] stood in a white t-shirt so baggy it appeared a sleeping gown. His ashy knees showed beneath it. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | What They Was 210: [T]ight jeans rolled up showing ashy ankles. | |
| Straight Dope [ebook] [L]ooking like a black Methuselah, his old, ashy knees poking out. |