Ofay vs Foe - What's the difference?
ofay | foe |
(US, pejorative, slang) a white person.
* 1997 : Don DeLillo, Underworld :
*:The rival, the foe, the ofay , veins stretched and bulged between white knuckles.
(US, pejorative, slang) white, white-skinned.
* 1984. , Enderby's Dark Lady :
*:‘Baby,’ April Elgar said, ‘you may be an uptight ofay milk-toast limey bastard, but you ain’t no fag.’
* 1959. :
*:Everything is strictly peachy keen, as the ofay kids say.
(obsolete) Hostile.
*, vol.1, ch.23:
An enemy.
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As a noun ofay
is (us|pejorative|slang) a white person.As an adjective ofay
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(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)foe
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Etymology 1
(etyl) fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from (etyl) 'to hate, be hostile' (compare Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).Adjective
(en adjective)- he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King.
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(en noun)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foe s’ glee.}}