Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a nickname or term of intimate address to anyone with blond(e) hair; cite 1887 ref. to white hair.

1882		Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 22 Apr. 7/2: Had Dr and Mrs lovell had no child but the gentle, golden-haired Blondie, they would thought children all angels.
1887		Fort Worth Dly Gaz. (TX) 19 Oct. 3/2: ‘Here comes Blondie the milliner!’ [...] We ran to the window, only to see a young amn [...] His hair was as white as snow.
1890		Sedalia Wkly Bazoo (MO) 22 Apr. 4/5: How is Blondie? I hear Blondie has turned out rather fat? but that don’t lessen my aching interest, for we were boys and girls together.
1894		C.W. Gardner Doctor and the Devil 26: ‘Oh, Blondie,’ she shouted, ‘ain’t you going to give me a turn.’.
1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 237: How’s blondie?
1909		Van Loan ‘The Cast-Off’ in Big League (2004) 51: Come on. Blondie! [...] give us a hit!
1917		D.G. Phillips Susan Lenox I 395: So long, blondie.
1917		W.Y. Stevenson At the Front in a Flivver 12 Mar. 🌐 The Catholic priest and some of his friends announce that they will not attend the concert because little ‘blondy’ collected the money.
1921		P. & T. Casey Gay-cat 62: I’d joined out with a feller name o’ Blondy.
1927		(con. 1917) J. Stevens Mattock 24: The wop’s with Blondy.
1927		D. Hammett ‘The Big Knockover’ Story Omnibus (1966) 302: How do you like that lead-and-leather pat on the temple, blondy?
1928		R. Carr Rampant Age 126: You look lonesome, Blondie.
1930		W.R. Burnett Iron Man 227: Listen, blondy; when I came up here I made up my mind to be nice to you, but it can’t be done.
1935		R. Chandler ‘Nevada Gas’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 158: Drop the gat, blondie.
1936		Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 23 Aug. 34/2: Darky always did fall for the blondies.
1941		V. Davis Phenomena in Crime 25: Hello, Blondie.
1946		D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 46: ‘You ain’t never been so quiet before, Blondy.’ ‘That ain’t my name,’ she said.
1951		Kerouac On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 134: Gene and Blondey just stood there.
1956		S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 122: Blondie shake her head then he take Moses to another one who was sitting on a bench.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 10: The Sergeant told Blondie to let me go.
1958		W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 304: He was quite a big guy, tall, a dishwater blond, but Italian. Blondie or Whitey you’d call him if you didn’t know his name.
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 91: Blondie who’s sitting at your table is a wrong guy. Strictly bad news.
1969		P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: Blondie, I call him.
1970		J. Bouton Ball Four 232: Hija, blondie. How’s your old tomato?
1980		A. Maupin More Tales of the City (1984) 146: What’s up, Blondie?
1988		(con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 17: What’s the matter, Blondie? You a dinge queen?
1993		C. Hiaasen Strip Tease 121: [to a man] Blondie, lemme ’splain de facts o’ life.
1996		(con. 1950s) C. Kenneally Maura’s Boy 18: Will you look at the white head on him. Hello, blondie, will you give us a birdie?
1999		J. Ridley Everybody Smokes in Hell 84: Saint Blondie took a deep breath [...] shifting to an uncomfortable subject.
2002		D.H. Sterry Chicken (2003) 179: Redheads, deadheads, blondies, brownies, blackies, lackies [...].

2. a blond(e) person, usu. a woman.

1925		New Yorker 25: Roskin, of this floor, and Ed. O’Shaunnessy with a blondie; also the Mawruss Bros, who stagged it.
1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 210: Not that he cared much for darkies. Give him blondies every time.
1937		Sun. Times (Perth) 30 May 13/2: He still may have an eye for beauty - blondie or brunette / A winsome wench, divorcee or a widdy.
1939		P. Di Donato Christ in Concrete 126: Blondy-Blondina – a real golden-haired American Spring Chicken!
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 154: You might not think no husky little Irish blondie like me could get scared of an underfed little shoneen like that.
1947		C.S. Montanye ‘Frozen Stiff’ in Popular Detective Mar. 🌐 Mac let the blondie [i.e. a man] sag to the carpet and caressed his knuckles.
1955		B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] She could be a blondie or a blackhair wop and I’d want her.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 79: [of men] Which is just what the blondies did.
1985		T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 52: You didn’t bring a blondie home with you, Michael?
2000		Guardian G2 26 May 3: Celebrated blondies Pamela Anderson [...] and, er, Hillary Clinton.
2010		K. Richards Life 251: That great little blondie, great guitar player, great fun.
2012		T.P. McCauley ‘Lady Madeline’s Dive’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] She drained her champagne glass, then held it out for Blondie to refill.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 27: ‘Are you sure you wrote that yourself?’ In other words, ‘blondie looks stoopid’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 355: ‘Remember that other blondie cooze who kiled herself?’.

3. (US black) a white woman (irrespective of hair colour); also as adj.

1928		N.I. White Amer. Negro Folk-Songs 314: [reported from Auburn, Ala., 1915-1916] A blondy woman, a blondy woman / Make a po’ man go to jail, / But a brunette woman will make / A tadpole fight a whale.
1972		K. Johnson ‘Vocab. of race’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 145: Blondie. Descriptive label referring to any white woman.