o.fay

n.Offensive Slang （名詞）【無禮用語】 【俚語】
Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
白人：用作對白色人種的蔑稱

來源：
[Possibly of West African origin]
[很可能源于西非]

<注釋>The commonly seen etymology ofofay —Pig Latin for foe —is perhaps of less interest than the more likely story of this word`s origins. The word, which is first recorded in the first quarter of the 20th century,must have been in use much longer if it is, as some scholars think, borrowed from an African source.Although this source has not been pinned down,the suggested possibilities are in themselves interesting.One would trace it to the Ibibio wordafia, .white or light-colored.. Another would have it come from Yorubaofe, a word that was said in order to protect oneself from danger. The term was then transferred to white people,regarded as a danger to Black people throughout the wretched days of slavery and beyond.
ofay 一詞的最常見的詞形變化是 foe ，一種兒童黑話說法——可能更有趣的是關(guān)于這個詞來源的故事： 在20世紀前二十五年里有次記載，如果按一些學(xué)者們所想，如果它是從非洲借過來的，它被使用的時間應(yīng)更長一些。雖然這個說法還沒有定下來，但它蘊含的可能性本身就很有趣。人們可能將它追溯到一個伊比比奧詞afia ，意思是.白色或淺色.。 另還有人將它追溯到約魯巴語ofe ，這個詞是為了保持自己，避開危險的意思。 此后這個術(shù)語被移用于白人，這些白人在奴隸制及以前的悲慘日子里，被認為是對黑人們的危險