Homie

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1920s: from home + -ie; compare with homeboy.

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Earliest known reference is in the 1946 tune by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack, "The House of Blue Lights," when Morse improvises a spoken-word intro. Equivalent to home +‎ -ie.

Variant spelling of Polari (early-to-mid 20th-century British English cant/slang popular among gay men) omi(“man, bloke”).

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homie (n.)

also homey, by 1970s, slang, short for homeboy (q.v.). OED reports the identical word is recorded from the 1920s in New Zealand slang in the sense "recently arrived British immigrant."