Okie

See also: okie

English

Etymology

Shortening of Oklahoma, +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.ki/
  • Rhymes: -əʊki

Noun

Okie (plural Okies)

  1. (US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person from Oklahoma.
    Synonyms: Oklahoman, Sooner
    Will Rogers is considered a famous Okie.
    • 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 19, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 242:
      [I]n the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
      One time we broke into an Okie house where everybody was getting ready to go to a funeral.
    • 1979 August 11, Laud Humphreys, “Courage, Sisters and Brothers!”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 5:
      When, in high school, I was at the depth of my self-loathing-as-sissy, a brilliant young man arrived in Chickasha to become choral director at the high school. My friends and I had never met anyone like him: urbane, brilliant, dedicated to professional standards, a real taskmaster, who seemed to care for us little Okie hicks.

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