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Okie colloq.|ˈəʊkɪ|
[f. Oklahoma, one of the United States + -ie (see -y6).]
A migrant agricultural worker, spec. one from Oklahoma forced to leave his farm during the depression of the 1930s. Also, a native or inhabitant of Oklahoma. Also attrib. Cf. Oklahoman.
1938Forum & Century Jan. 12 About a fifth of [the migratory workers in California] are Okies. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xviii. 280 Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. 1941S. Longstreet Last Man around World 356 The hillbilly, the Okie..and people who once shook hands with Warren G. Harding..fill the land. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 11 July 21/5 Sooners have less reason to be offended at being called ‘Okies’ than residents of other states have for their nicknames. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 167 This was an Okie from Bakersfield, California. 1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 87 The songs of the ‘Okies’, those modern Forty-niners from the depleted farm lands of the Southwest. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. viii. 180 Procházka..describes the problem of reproducing in Czech the Okie speech used by some of Steinbeck's characters. 1970J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) viii. 67 I'm a dirty, ignorant Okie to him. 1975New Society 19 June 705/1 Oklahoma got most attention, but migrants drifted from other places across the Great Plains and rural south... As time passed, nearly all migrants came to be called Okies once they had reached California. 1978Chicago June 40/2 Glenn Allen Smith's new play about the zany misadventures of an Okie hero-type is not quite zany enough to carry its weight. |