Geechee
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Gee·chee
(gē′chē)n. Coastal South Carolina and Georgia
1.
a. The Gullah creole.
b. A speaker of Gullah.
2. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.
[Perhaps after the Ogeeche River (around which some Gullah communities live) or perhaps from Kissi (Atlantic Niger-Congo language of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) kìsì-, ethnic self-designation of the Kissi people (as in kìsìéí, the Kissi language).]
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geechee
(ˈɡiːtʃiː)n
1. (Languages) a dialect combining elements of English and native African languages, originally spoken by Black slaves in the area of the Ogeechee river in the south of the USA
2. (Languages) a person who speaks this dialect
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