ofay
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A rude word for a white person
- noun
- Slur
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[insulto despectivo para persona blanca]
- What are you doing hustlin' for the ofays here?
Examples
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Aren't you scared talking like that in front of an ofay?
Fiction book (1992) -
I know everything there is to know about you ofays.
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-Still happily married to that rich ofay.
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Now, get your ofay, Paddy ass on down the road.
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And that ofay you're gonna marry.
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He's this old, rich ofay motherfucker.
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Don't give me that dumb ofay look.
Fiction book (1999) -
This rich ofay, like he's 60.
Fiction book (1992) -
If I was one of them ofays, I'd be number one with a bullet by now.
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He referred to the tourists as ofay during the heated debate about race.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ofay is an old slang insult for white people and its origin is not clear, but one idea is that it comes from the simple word foe 'enemy' turned into slang. That's why ofay was used as a short, insulting name for someone seen as an outsider.