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white ((adv.))

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adv. — Slang

fairly; decently.

Quotations

1899

Over at Nelson the people used the editors white, and gave them a take so that everyone regretted the coming of "30."

1909

Just a dollar to help me out, I know you'll treat me white; / I'll do as much for you some day. . . .

2adv. — Derog.

in speak or talk white, like an English-speaking Canadian.

See: speak white,talk white,white ((adj.))(def. 2b)

Quotations

1912

"Sounds like Injun languages," says he, "can't you talk white?"

1963

I refuse to look forward to a future time when one of my children will come home hurt because he has been ordered to "speak white."

1964

Every English Canadian who ... says "speak white" to a French compatriot, is equally totalitarian and Fascist.

1966

As we toasted the action later that day in the prize bottle of Scotch, Yves had to agree that "speak white in Toronto," if it had been true, was certainly not true now.