See cullud pusson on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Most likely an intentional mispronunciation of \"colored person\", perhaps to mock how African American people pronounced the term.",
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"ref": "1862, James Roberts Gilmore, Among the Pines: Or, South in Secession-time, page 57:",
"text": "[…] not a long time before, had charmed the last dollar from my waistcoat pocket by exhibiting, à la Barnum, a remarkably ugly \"cullud pusson\" on his pulpit stairs, and by picturing the awful doom which awaited her […]",
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"ref": "1885, W. W. Breese, The Cornucopia: Or, Horn of Plenty, page 407:",
"text": "De niggers prayed, but it didn't do no good, as de Yankees only frowed de more shells, and de Lord seemed deaf to de petitions of the cullud pussons.",
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"ref": "1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 49:",
"text": "Well, the cullud pusson I knew was swallowed by an alligator, because he told a lie.",
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"ref": "1891, Alice Elinor Bartlett, A New Aristocracy, page 78:",
"text": "\"Meg,\" said Elsie, as Margaret came wearily into the house at the noon hour, \"what have you been trying to do with those good-for-nothing 'cullud pussons' out there?\"\n\"Teach them a little responsibility, that is all.\"",
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"A colored person (one with black skin)."
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"ref": "1862, James Roberts Gilmore, Among the Pines: Or, South in Secession-time, page 57:",
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"text": "De niggers prayed, but it didn't do no good, as de Yankees only frowed de more shells, and de Lord seemed deaf to de petitions of the cullud pussons.",
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"ref": "1891, Alice Elinor Bartlett, A New Aristocracy, page 78:",
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