boogie n.2
1. a derog. term for a black person.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Hobo Lingo’ in AS I:12 650: Boogie — a negro. | |
| Man’s Grim Justice 73: The big boogie grunted. | |
| Conjure-Man Dies 98: Where’d that boogy go? | |
| What’s In It For Me? 11: He shrugged, and held up his hands like a boogie singing a spiritual. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 186: Come on, Red, send that boogie back to Central Avenue. | |
| USA Confidential 65: We don’t stand for fresh boogies down this way. | |
| Exit 3 and Other Stories 18: Pretty nice for a boogie. Saved my life. | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 16: One [...] thick, funcky, spunky boogey. | |
| Cogan’s Trade (1975) 36: One of them guys that the boogeys’re always after and he hadda gun in there. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 6: That boogie might live in Watts. | |
| Lang. of Ethnic Conflict 48: boogie, -y [1920s. Probably an alteration of booger (‘bogeyman’). Also bo, bu, boog, booger, boo-boo]. | |
| It (1987) 907: You nigger boogie night-fighter jungle-bunny apeman coon! | |
| Straight Outta Compton 57: One of the participating officers, ‘How else can you capture a boogie?’. |
2. as used by a black person, neutral/non-derog.
| Walls Of Jericho 13: ‘This boogy,’ explained Bubber, ‘thinks he’s bad. Come slippin’ me ’bout my family. He knows I don’t play nuthin’ like that.’. | |
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 16 Sept. 12A: Look here, Miss Woogie [...] I’m your boogie. |
In phrases
(US) a black person.
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 bush boogie (noun) black person – very derogatory term referring to Blacks; derived from their jungle origin. |
1. a black informer.
| ‘Hobo Lingo’ in AS I:12 651: Faded boogie — Negro acting as a ‘stool-pigeon’. | |
| Milk and Honey Route 205: Faded bogey – Negro acting as an informer. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 70: Faded Boogie. – A negro informer or stool pigeon. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 79: faded bogey [sic] A negro informer. | |
| ‘Smugglers’ Argot in the Southwest’ AS XXXI:2 98: The phrase to describe a Negro stool pigeon is a faded bogey. | |
| Maledicta III:2 168: Boogie, faded n 1: Black informer 2: White who imitates Negro fashions; ‘boogie’ is a derogatory term for a Negro. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 67: Dopehead looking like Handiman standing in the booth. He was a faded boogie. |
2. a black who apes whites and loses their own ethnicity.
| (ref. to 1950s) Juba to Jive. |
3. a white who imitates blacks.
| Maledicta III:2 168: Boogie, faded n [...] 2: White who imitates Negro fashions. | |
 | FindArticles.com June 🌐 Doyle Bramhall is what black folks in the ’60s used to call a faded boogie. Translation: a soul-filled white boy who has played with everyone from Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Charlie Sexton and Roger Waters. |