buccra

Noun

buckra (plural buckras)

1. (Caribbean, derogatory) A white person.
   • As he was going to the stake, he turned about, and addressed himself to Mr. Jeffreys […] and said, “Buckra, you see me now, but to-morrow I shall be like that,” kicking up the dust with his foot.1791, An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791, on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, London...
2. (archaic, dated, derogatory, African-American Vernacular) A poor white person.
   • “Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep him here till de corporal ob de guard come.”1865 January, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Leaves from an Officer’s Journal”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 87, page 69

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