Other forms: commies
Commie is a hostile informal word for a communist. Reds and commies, called him a commie, commie sympathiser.
It belongs to the Cold War and to American politics above all, where it was the standard slur of the McCarthy years. It is contemptuous by design, and it is used far more to dismiss an opponent than to describe anybody's actual politics.
1nouncommieA communist, in hostile informal use.
“His uncle called anyone who wanted higher taxes a commie.”
commie is an insult.
A clipping of communist with the -ie ending, from the 1930s and chiefly American.
French
communiste
English
communist
English, today
commie
Built from
communist and -ie. communist comes from French communiste. From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). by surface analysis, commune + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA