blackity-black

Meaning

Adjective

  • 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

Origin

  • Unknown. Perhaps from blackity + black, with the reduplication serving to intensify or stress the focus on being black (i.e. African-American).

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