commie
See also: Commie
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.mi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔm.i/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒmi
Etymology 1
editBlend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Noun
editcommie (plural commies)
- (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
- Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.
- 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, published 2003, page 49:
- “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”
- 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,
- “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”
- 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48:
- The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
- 2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia[1], archived from the original on 29 January 2024:
- "I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."
- (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist
Synonyms
edit- commo (Australia)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editcommunist (pejorative)
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communist — see communist
See also
editAdjective
editcommie (not comparable)
- (derogatory, slang) Communist.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Commodore (“name of a car model”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
editcommie (plural commies)
Etymology 3
editFrom commercial vehicle.
Noun
editcommie (plural commies)
- (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.
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