kelchn.
/kɛltʃ/ slang.
A white person: only in depreciatory use.
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white mana1398
Christian1622
European1666
white-face1684
long knife1784
buckra1794
sahib1796
white-skin1803
whitey1811
Pakeha1817
papalagi1817
paleface1823
whitefellow1826
Abelungu1836
haole1843
gringo1849
lightiea1855
umlungu1859
mzungu1860
heaven-burster1861
ladino1877
mooniasc1880
Conchy Joe1888
béké1889
ofay1899
ridge runner1904
Ngati Pakeha1905
kelch1912
pink1913
leucoderm1924
fay1927
Mr Charlie1928
pinkie1935
devil1938
wonk1938
oaf1941
grey1943
paddy1945
Caucasoid1956
Jumble1957
Caucasian1958
white boy1958
pinko-grey1964
honky1967
toubab1976
palagi1977
1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. i. 14 ‘Do you mean to say that you haven't got a single book of James'?’ ‘Never heard the name,’ the bookstall boy said. ‘But there's plenty by Mrs. Kerr Howe.’ ‘That kelch!’ Major Foster exclaimed.
1938 C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 173 Then he met a high-yellah gal, a three-quarter keltz, from down Harlem way.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 73 Kelt, keltch, white person; Negro passing for white.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1912- out of wit or one's wit
- out of work
- out of, with the tail of the eye
- out off bias
- out off one's bias
- out off one's bird
- out on
- out on a limb
- out on one's arse
- out on one's ass
- out on one's ear
- out on one's feet
- out on one's neck
- out on the heel
- out on the town
- out one's livery
- out outwith judgement
- out over measure
- out pipes
- out the ass
- out the game
- out the monk
- out the wazoo
- out the window
- out there