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bakkra

bakkra noun: a white person, especially one who owned slaves.

Noun

bakkra (plural bakkra)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, historical) A white person, especially one who owned slaves.
    • She said to her daughter, my grandmother, that the next blood shed would be bakkra's.2015, Naomi A. Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill, page 283

Forms of bakkra

pluralbakkra

Origin of bakkra

Derived from Efik mbakara.

Questions about bakkra

What does bakkra mean?
Bakkra means a white person, especially one who owned slaves.
What part of speech is bakkra?
Bakkra is a noun.
What is the plural of bakkra?
The plural of bakkra is bakkra.

Words near bakkra in the dictionary

  1. Bakker
  2. Bakkers
  3. Bakkes
  4. bakkie
  5. bakkies
  6. bakkra
  7. bakkwa
  8. bakla
  9. Baklahorani
  10. baklas
  11. baklava

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