dustee
/ˈdʌsti/
dustee noun: a person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.
Noun
dustee (plural dustees)
- A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.
- In his first year's ministry in Long Island Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 "Blacks, Mulattoes, Mustees and Dustees." The negroes there had been "misled by strange doctrines." They called themselves "Baptists, the followers of St. John," ...1893, Charles Frederick Pascoe, Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1892, page 223
- The several removes from a black are as follows:—The mongrel, the offspring of a black and a mulatto; the mulatto, the offspring of a black and a white; the mustee, the offspring of a mulatto and a white; the fustee, the offspring of a mustee and a white; and the dustee, the offspring of a fustee...c. 1844, unknown author, Antigua and the Antiguans, (Complete) a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants From the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day
Forms of dustee
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Origin of dustee
Perhaps from dusty? With regard to the ending, compare costee, fustee, mustee/mestee.
Words that rhyme with dustee
Questions about dustee
- What does dustee mean?
- Dustee means a person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.
- What part of speech is dustee?
- Dustee is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dustee?
- Dustee is pronounced /ˈdʌsti/.
- What is the plural of dustee?
- The plural of dustee is dustees.
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