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cullud pusson

cullud pusson noun: a colored person (one with black skin).

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
    • De niggers prayed, but it didn't do no good, as de Yankees only frowed de more shells, and de Lord seemed deaf to de petitions of the cullud pussons.1885, W. W. Breese, The Cornucopia: Or, Horn of Plenty, page 407

Forms of cullud pusson

pluralcullud pussons
pluralcullud people

Origin of cullud pusson

Most likely an intentional mispronunciation of "colored person", perhaps to mock how African American people pronounced the term.

Questions about cullud pusson

What does cullud pusson mean?
Cullud pusson means a colored person (one with black skin).
What part of speech is cullud pusson?
Cullud pusson is a noun.
What is the plural of cullud pusson?
The plural of cullud pusson is cullud pussons.

Words near cullud pusson in the dictionary

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

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