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单词 high yellow
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high yellow
high yellow n. and adj. (also high yalla, high yaller, high yella) originally and chiefly U.S. (now usu. considered offensive) (a) n. a black or mixed-race person having light brown skin; (b) adj. of, relating, to, or designating such a person.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person
mongrel1542
of (the) half blood1697
half-caste1758
half-breed1760
lip-lap1798
quarter-breed1821
half-blood1826
half-and-half1827
quarter-blood1827
quarter-caste1859
mixed blooda1862
brown1862
miscegen1864
yellowbelly1867
breed1870
redbone1890
miscegenate1898
high yellow1910
samba1958
lightie1991
1910 Chicago Defender 17 Sept. 3/2 The P.O. Dude..who is crazy about a certain piano player (a high yellow) who lives on Dearborn.
1913 Sat. Evening Post 8 Nov. 10/1 He traded fer a straw hat an' commenced runnin' wid chocolate-browns. Huh! Nothin' won't suit Virgil now 'cep' de high yallers.
1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering iv. viii. 241 At present I should be living in a villa just outside Paris with a Japanese cook and a Zulu butler, with three highyaller kids getting ready to go to Eton.
1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board iii. 61 [He] had played and danced with various mulatto and ‘high yaller’ girls back home in Nashville.
1969 ‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass xviii. 158 The big high yellow nodded at him with impersonal cordiality.
1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter ii. vii. 169 There are nine white cheerleaders on the varsity squad, all so pretty, and one high yalla..first time in school history that a nonwhite girl has been so honored.
2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater xi. 72 Where the hell you hear that from?.. I'm high yellow to the core baby but you can see that I'm handling.
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