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cullud people

cullud people is the plural of cullud pusson.

Meaning of cullud pusson

Noun

cullud pusson (plural cullud pussons or cullud people)

  1. (US, ethnic, obsolete, slur) A colored person (one with black skin).
    • […] not a long time before, had charmed the last dollar from my waistcoat pocket by exhibiting, à la Barnum, a remarkably ugly "cullud pusson" on his pulpit stairs, and by picturing the awful doom which awaited her […]1862, James Roberts Gilmore, Among the Pines: Or, South in Secession-time, page 57

Questions about cullud people

What is cullud people the plural of?
Cullud people is the plural of cullud pusson.

Words near cullud people in the dictionary

  1. Culloms
  2. Cullop
  3. Cullops
  4. culls
  5. cullud
  6. cullud people
  7. cullud pusson
  8. cullud pussons
  9. Cullulleraine
  10. cullum
  11. Cullum number

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