Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (S Afr./US/UK black) any white individual; occas. ext. to Latinos and Chicanos.

1827		P. Cunningham New South Wales II 21: The instant blacky perceives whity beating a retreat, he vociferates after him.
1830		Memoirs of the Late Capt. Hugh Crow 285: Blackey will overreach if he finds an opportunity, but the probability is. that his rogueries are often but apt imitations of Mr. Whitey.
1851		Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Mar. 2/7: If your whitey browney hit im my boy I’ll kill her.
1895		Coburg Leader (Vic.) 8 June 1/5: What sort of a whitey has Tommy Manallack got hold of over there.
1930		‘Dean Stiff’ Milk and Honey Route 36: According to color, a hobo may be called ‘red,’ ‘blackie,’ ‘whitey,’ or ‘yellow.’.
1948		J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 76: Put it away, Whitey.
1951		L. Brown Iron City 32: The hell I won’t, Whitey.
1967		C. Himes ‘Tang’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 410: That’ll blow the shit out of whitey’s asshole.
1971		J. Mandelkau Buttons 83: A car loaded with blacks would zoom by and one of them would yell, ‘Hey – Whitey! Scum!’.
1971		T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘Basically he was just screwing Whitey’.
1977		P. Hamill Flesh and Blood (1978) 38: One week he’s a Muslim, full of all that stomp whitey bullshit, and now he’s my manager.
1985		N. Pileggi Wiseguy (2001) 178: How come I’m fucking broke and all you whities from the May-fia got the money?
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 154: He belted the nearest whitey [...] ‘Come on boys, let’s give it to the spooks’.
1989		C.J. Fourie Big Boys in Kani (1994) 125: daniel: You’re an innocent little kaffir man, that’s what you are. [...] solomon: Don’t ever call me that ... I’ll kill you, whitey!
1991		J. Osborne Déjàvu Act I: He does exaggerate, don’t you, whitey?
1998		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 May 🌐 A meeting place for black middle-class intellectuals and ‘wannabe-black’ whiteys.
2000		Guardian Rev. 26 Feb. 5: The murder victim had been found in a gutter [...] and a note that read: ‘Die whitey scum’.
2007		W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 52: You know any black private eyes? [...] Every time I turn on the TV, it’s like Jones, Freelance Whitey.
2010		K. Richards Life 342: It was just like a dare, in way. You know, watch whitey fall to the floor.
2013		T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘[T]he last thing I need is another dead whitey in my house’.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 294: The deaths of 1000 black people equal one whitey’s.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 297: No youts on road gonna run after a white woman and shout get the whiteys. Typical Daily Mail racist bullshit.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 139: Oh, shit, so whitey doin yoga at the funeral home now?

2. (also whitie) attrib. use of sense 1.

1971		R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 254: ‘You can’t go owing a whitey gangster ten grand and tell him to go to hell’’.
1984		(con. 1976) B. Simon ‘Black Dog’ Born in the RSA (1997) 31: Smash your piss champagne . . . and your whitey laaities.
2008		A. Lovejoy ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 3: Maybe finding another whitie boermeid just like that special little bitch in the Hustler magazine.

3. (US/UK black) the white race in general; also as adj.

1871		E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master (1892) 101: These bands of desperadoes still found among the ‘poor whitey,’ ‘dirt-eater’ class.
1910		Sporting Times 1 Jan. 2/4: Octavius gets rid of a fine heroic speech [...] about Britain’s rule in India being as the sheet of oil that calms the ruffled surface of the perturbed ocean of whitey-brown humanity.
1959		J. Blake letter 23 Sept. in Joint (1972) 146: Tony the leader has been coming on strong, apparently in search of a whitey-trophy and he may get it.
1965		(con. 1940s) Malcolm X Autobiog. (1968) 155: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.
1972		Milner & Milner Black Players 67: The Black man has two ‘enemies’ who are trying to control him: Whitey and woman.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 47: Uncle Tom, whitey lover. Dey can’t even talk to they own brothers, sisters.
1992		J. Mowry Way Past Cool 117: Ain’t no wonder whitey figure we all stone-cold crazy!
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 154: The one where Curtis is shouting ‘Niggers . . . Whiteys . . . Jews.’.
2000		Guardian Rev. 18 Mar. 3: Louis Armstrong [...] showing his fellow-musicians that he hadn’t been bought out by Whitey.
2003		G. Tate Midnight Lightning 14: The loudest, angriest Blackfolk around were bent on getting whitey off the planet.

4. (US black, also whitie) a nickname for a very dark-skinned black person.

1953

W. Fisher Waiters 129: It was Whitie, a massively built man, so called by the waiters because he was black as tar.

5. (Aus.) Carlton draft beer.

1999

G. Seal Lingo 133: Different brands of beer have their own Lingo names: [...] a whitey is Carlton Draft.

6. (UK juv.) a short-term attack of panic and increased heart-rate caused by an excess of cannabis; occas. as v. [the white pallor of the victim’s skin].

2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 Whitey n. A whitey can be produced by over indulgence in marijuana. The heart races, and you are restricted to sitting quietly gazing at the floor (or down the loo).
2007		R. Milward Apples (2023) 29: One of the blonde lasses got fuckin spaced out [...] but she didn’t whitey or owt.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 107: I’m gonnae have a whitey. No I’m not. No, I’m not. Don’t panic.
2015		Twitter 5 May 🌐 [pic. caption] When yer about tae whitey n yer pal asks if yer awryt .
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 66: ‘I pulled a whitey, I guess’.

7. (US) a White Castle hamburger.

2012

M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] I grabbed a few leftover Whitey’s from the mini and tossed them on the floor.