Geecheen.
/ˈɡiːtʃiː/, U.S. /ˈɡiˌtʃi/ U.S. regional (southern).
(See quot. 1934.) Also: a derogatory term for a black person of the southern United States. Cf. Gullah n.
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1926 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 278 Among the negroes living on the Ogeechee River a patois, developed in ante bellum days, has persisted... The origin of ‘Geechee’, as the patois is called, is explained by the fact that slaves employed on the old rice plantations were more or less isolated and rarely conversed with their white owners, with the result that their knowledge of English words was slight and the pronunciation of them was bizarre. The ‘Geechee’ negro speaks in a sort of staccato and always seems excited when talking.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Geechee. A dialect, originally of Negro slaves on the Ogeechee river, Georgia, formed of English and native African words. 2. One who speaks Geechee.
1940 E. Caldwell Trouble in July xiii. 208 He sounds like one of those Geechee niggers... That breed'll do anything to keep them from working.
1945 New Yorker 8 Sept. 20/2 Creecy was a Geechee..blacker than the soot in the fireplace.
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