different between ancestry vs darkey

English

Alternative forms

• ancestrie (obsolete)
• auncestrie (obsolete)
• auncestry (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.s?s.t?i/

Noun

ancestry (plural ancestries)

1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

   Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.

2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Synonyms

• provenance

Related terms

• ancestor

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• darky, darkie

Etymology

dark +? -ey

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??ki/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??ki/

Noun

darkey (plural darkeys)

1. (dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.
   • 1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune:

     Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master.

2. (slang, obsolete) A dark lantern.

Translations

See also

• blackie

Anagrams

• yarked