From en.wiktionary.org:
[Commie]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A communist ; a person with communist sympathies ; a supposed communist infiltrator .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1960 | author=Mira Rothenberg; Peter Levine | title=Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BkN4UmMQRCAC&pg=PA49&dq=%22commie%22%7C%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hdcvT6esFqqiiAfD5YnNDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22%7C%22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=49 | year_published=2003
|passage=“Jack Kennedy′s one COMMIE,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll
elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”}}
1. * 1966 June, Jack Burris, _Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out_ , _Black World: Negro Digest_ , |%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z9QvT_L0C6uaiAee8YHaDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22 | %22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 67 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6DkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=%22commie%22) ,
2. *: “Why, them dirty COMMIES , of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee COMMIES started in.”
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=Robert W. Cherny; William Issel; Kieran Walsh Taylor | title=American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7XM3T-oShboC&pg=PA48&dq=%22commie%22%7C%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xdEvT9O_O-WviQedz5HfDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22%7C%22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=48
|passage=The COMMIES claim they are helping the blacks.}}
1. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=01/29/2024 |origdate=January 26, 2024 |author=Tim Lee; Ray Chung
|quotee=w:Brendan Kavanagh |title=London YouTuber hid in van, received death
threats after piano face-off |translator=Luisetta Mudie |work=w:Radio Free
Asia
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129202751/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/uk-piano-threats-01292024150054.html
|archivedate=29 January 2024
|url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/uk-piano-threats-01292024150054.html
|text="I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese
COMMIES," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a
threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that
rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."}}
1. [en] [en] .
***** Synonyms
- [en] [Australia]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[communist (pejorative)]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Rio de la Plata] , [es] [Río de la Plata] , [es] [Mexico] , [es] [Cuba]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[communist]
***** See also
- [en]
- [en]
**** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Communist .
***** Derived terms
- anti-commie
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A 吴语: Holden Commodore .
*** Etymology 3
From commercial vehicle.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A commercial vehicle .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
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