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Okie

[oh-kee]

Origin

noun Usually Disparaging and Offensive.

a migrant worker from Oklahoma, especially during the Great Depression.

a native or inhabitant of Oklahoma.

a migrant farm worker.

Origin:
1930–35; Ok(lahoma) + -ie

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noun

a native of Okinawa.

adjective

belonging to the Okinawan people.

Origin:
1935–40; Ok(inawa) + -ie

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Okie (ˈəʊkɪ)

—n
1.	an inhabitant of Oklahoma
2.	an impoverished migrant farm worker, esp one who left Oklahoma during the Depression of the 1930s to work elsewhere in the US

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Okie

"migrant agricultural worker," especially one driven from farms in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, 1938, short for U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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