commie

See also: Commie

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.mi/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔm.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi

Etymology 1

Blend of communist +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.

   Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than to ever meet Catherine in a café.

   • 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, published 2003, page 49:

     “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”

   • 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,

     “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.”

   • 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48:

     The commies claim they are helping the blacks.

   • 2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 January 2024:

     "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."

2. (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist

Synonyms

• commo (Australia)

Derived terms

• anarcho-commie
• anti-commie
• commie block
• Commiefornia

 

Translations

communist (pejorative)

• Belarusian: камуня́ка m or f (kamunjáka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 共匪 (zh) (gòngfěi)

• Czech: komouš (cs) m, komouška f
• Estonian: kommu
• Finnish: kommari (fi)
• French: coco (fr) m or f
• German: Kommi m or f
• Hungarian: komcsi (hu)
• Japanese: 共匪 (きょうひ, kyōhi)
• Korean: 빨갱이 (ko) (ppalgaeng'i), 적구(赤狗) (jeokgu), 공비(共匪) (gongbi)
• Macedonian: комуња́р m (komunjár), комуња́рка f (komunjárka)
• Polish: komuch (pl) m, komuszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: comuna (pt) m or f
• Russian: коммуня́ка (ru) m or f (kommunjáka), комуня́ка m or f (komunjáka)
• Spanish: comunistoide, rojo (es) m, rojillo m, bolche (es) (Rio de la Plata), zurdo (es) m (Río de la Plata), chairo (es) m (Mexico), comuñanga (Cuba)
• Ukrainian: комуня́ка m or f (komunjáka)
• Vietnamese: thằng cộng sản, thằng VC

communist — see communist

See also

• red under the bed
• tankie

Adjective

commie (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, slang) Communist.

Derived terms

• anti-commie

Etymology 2

From Commodore (“name of a car model”) +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, Australia) A Holden Commodore.

Etymology 3

From commercial vehicle.

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.

Anagrams

• McOmie