ofay adj.
(US) of a person, white; relating to white culture.
![]() | Adventure Jan. 446: I saw a mardi-gras suit of clothes that might have been ofay on a negro minstrel. | |
![]() | Walls Of Jericho 39: Either a crowd of fay boys would catch a jig and beat him up or a crowd of jigs would get a fay boy and teach him the fear of the Lord. | |
![]() | Banjo 4: I bummed you two times when you was strutting with that ofay broad. | |
![]() | Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Look at me. I’m a ’fay boy. See these grey eyes? | Mulatto in|
![]() | ‘Hectic Harlem’ in N.Y. Amsterdam News 8 Feb, sect. 2: OFAY CHICK. – A white girl. | |
![]() | On Broadway 24 Jan. [synd. col.] She is goin’ with the drummer of an o’fay band. | |
![]() | Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 19: Us young homes, and lanes and hipstuds, gray and fay, and spook and spade. | |
![]() | Really the Blues 62: He was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music. [Ibid.] 182: The whole area [i.e. Harlem] was overrun by fay gangsters who got fat on the profits they raked in. [Ibid.] 205: That was the last ofay job I ever held in my life. | |
![]() | Trespass 28: Just like a goddam ’fay landlord. | |
![]() | Junkie (1966) 156: Fey . . . White. | |
![]() | Joint (1972) 145: They sing in that style affected by such ofay-rich (shall we say?) outfits as The Platters. | letter 23 Sept. in|
![]() | ‘Razor Fight’ in Southern (1973) 31: They was standin’ on the corner [...] when a couple of o-fay chicks come strollin’ by. | |
![]() | Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 52: Loboy got a fay chick sommers. | |
![]() | Black Woman (1970) 52: This fay dude want me to play at his house for fifty cent. | ‘Tell Martha Not to Moan’ in Cade|
![]() | Dopefiend (1991) 164: It was just some ofay kids. | |
![]() | Carlito’s Way 88: A lot of the fay chicks would go for his revolutionary bullshit. | |
![]() | (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 21: I ain’t your son, you ofay fuck. | |
![]() | Rope Burns 173: You one them gray boys wish he a spade, a ofay boy lookina get soul. | |
![]() | Rough Riders 46: Ofay motherfucker. | |
![]() | Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘You need to be gettin’ yo half-ofay ass up outta here’. | |
![]() | Widespread Panic 281: ‘The mark’s an ofay stiff. The girl’s colored’. |
In compounds
see white trash n.