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# darkey

«darkey» in Mova's school dictionary: **An old, insulting word for a Black person** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (old, offensive)

### meaning for a pupil

An old, insulting word for a Black person. It is offensive and must not be used today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/darkey/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a word that appears in some old stories, showing the prejudice of the time

### examples

- This is an old insult and is not used today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/darkey/#x1)
- Do not use this word; it hurts people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/darkey/#x2)
- Some old stories contain this insult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/darkey/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «darkey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/darkey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.