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Geechee

Geechee proper noun: gullah (South Carolina island language and culture).

Proper noun

Geechee

  1. Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)

Noun

Geechee (plural Geechees or Geechee)

  1. Gullah (member of South Carolina island culture)

Adjective

Geechee (comparative more Geechee, superlative most Geechee)

  1. Gullah (pertaining to South Carolina island culture)

Forms of Geechee

Proper noun
alternative formGeechy
alternative formGeechie
Noun
pluralGeechees
pluralGeechee
Adjective
comparativemore Geechee
superlativemost Geechee

Origin of Geechee

Clipping of Ogeechee. From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled. From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

Words formed from Geechee

Questions about Geechee

What does Geechee mean?
Geechee means gullah (South Carolina island language and culture).
What part of speech is Geechee?
Geechee can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.

Words near Geechee in the dictionary

  1. geebong
  2. geebongs
  3. geebung
  4. geebungs
  5. Geech
  6. Geechee
  7. Geechees
  8. Geeches
  9. Geechie
  10. Geechies
  11. Geechy

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