Ar·kie
| \ ˈärkē, ˈȧkē, -ki \
plural -s
Definition of Arkie
1
informal
: a native or resident of Arkansas
It's always good to welcome back a fellow Arkie who's been away all too long. — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 16 May 2012
2
informal, sometimes disparaging
: an itinerant agricultural worker
especially
: such a worker from Arkansas in the 1930s
In the South the number of sharecroppers farms dropped from 776,278 in 1930 to 541, 291 in 1940. The result was a homeless population, some of whom, known in the folklore of the times as "Okies" and "Arkies," packed up and took off for California. — Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation, 1988
— compare okie
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The first known use of Arkie was in 1927
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