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mustiphini

mustiphini is the alternative form of musteefino.

Meaning of musteefino

Noun

musteefino (plural musteefinos or musteefinoes)

  1. (obsolete) A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.
    • […] while the children of a musteefino are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes .1834, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica, London: J. Murray, page 106

Forms of mustiphini

pluralmustiphinis

Origin of mustiphini

Variant of musteefino.

Questions about mustiphini

What is mustiphini the alternative form of?
Mustiphini is the alternative form of musteefino.

Words near mustiphini in the dictionary

  1. mustine
  2. mustiness
  3. mustinesses
  4. musting
  5. Mustins
  6. mustiphini
  7. mustiphinis
  8. Mustique
  9. mustn't
  10. mustn't grumble
  11. mustn't've

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