commie
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈkɑːmi/
- Slur
:
[insulto] comunista
- Many people at the rally shouted slogans against the commie government.
- called a commie
- commie spy
- hunting commies
Get away from me, commie freak was what I'd say.
- Get away from me, commie freak was what I'd say.
- People call me a commie socialist, champagne socialist leftist.
Examples
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Intellectual communists and your plain, old, regular commie?
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"It's like being called a Commie in the '50s," Themstrom, a liberal Democrat, told New York magazine.
Academic text (1993) -
Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
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You were asking if he was a commie or what?
Fiction book (1990) -
There are still a lot of live Commies around.
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No, he's not a commie nor a fruit.
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Just so happens my momma was one of those "commie" teachers, and a dedicated one at that.
Blog text (6) -
"What's the commie situation out there on the boulevard, Colonel Rhomer?"
Fiction book (1993) -
People call me a commie socialist, champagne socialist leftist.
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They've been told we're Commies.
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who supports the idea that people share things and work for the community
Antonyms
Compounds
How Communist
Surface Forms
Morphology
commie = communist (transparent) = comm + ie
Formed informally from 'communist' by clipping and the diminutive/colloquial suffix '-ie', so the referent 'a communist' is directly recoverable.
Etymology
Commie is a short, informal name for communist, and it comes from common meaning 'shared' or 'together', as in community. The friendly -ie ending made it a nickname, but people often use commie as an insult for someone who supports 'shared' ownership.