English Explanatory Dictionary

blackity-black

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Typifying characteristic traits (e.g. physical, cultural, linguistic, etc.) of African-American blacks, especially in defiant contrast to those of whites or white-favouring blacks; quintessentially or characteristically black

Word forms

blackity-black more blackity-black most blackity-black blackity black blackedy black blackedy-black

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from blackedy (“characteristically black”) + black, with reduplication serving to intensify or stress the focus on being black (i.e. African-American); blackedy being equivalent to blacked + -y; or alternatively a corruption of blackedly black. Compare blacked up. For the spelling with -ity, see -ety, -ity.

Derived words

blackity-black black pro-blackity-black
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