"dustee" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdʌsti/ Forms: dustees [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌsti Etymology: Perhaps from dusty? With regard to the ending, compare costee, fustee, mustee/mestee. Head templates: {{en-noun}} dustee (plural dustees)
  1. (uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white. Tags: offensive, uncommon
    Sense id: en-dustee-en-noun-KweGGFL- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from dusty? With regard to the ending, compare costee, fustee, mustee/mestee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dustees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dustee (plural dustees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Charles Frederick Pascoe, Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1892, page 223",
          "text": "In his first year's ministry in Long Island Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 \"Blacks, Mulattoes, Mustees and Dustees.\" The negroes there had been \"misled by strange doctrines.\" They called themselves \"Baptists, the followers of St. John,\" ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1844, unknown author, Antigua and the Antiguans, (Complete) a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants From the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day",
          "text": "The several removes from a black are as follows:—The mongrel, the offspring of a black and a mulatto; the mulatto, the offspring of a black and a white; the mustee, the offspring of a mulatto and a white; the fustee, the offspring of a mustee and a white; and the dustee, the offspring of a fustee and a white. This last gradation is the connecting link between the degraded children of Ham, and the descendants of his more honoured brethren."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white."
      ],
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          "fustee",
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        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌsti/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌsti"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "dusty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dustee"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from dusty? With regard to the ending, compare costee, fustee, mustee/mestee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dustees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dustee (plural dustees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌsti"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Charles Frederick Pascoe, Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1892, page 223",
          "text": "In his first year's ministry in Long Island Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 \"Blacks, Mulattoes, Mustees and Dustees.\" The negroes there had been \"misled by strange doctrines.\" They called themselves \"Baptists, the followers of St. John,\" ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1844, unknown author, Antigua and the Antiguans, (Complete) a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants From the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day",
          "text": "The several removes from a black are as follows:—The mongrel, the offspring of a black and a mulatto; the mulatto, the offspring of a black and a white; the mustee, the offspring of a mulatto and a white; the fustee, the offspring of a mustee and a white; and the dustee, the offspring of a fustee and a white. This last gradation is the connecting link between the degraded children of Ham, and the descendants of his more honoured brethren."
        }
      ],
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        "A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white."
      ],
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        [
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          "fustee"
        ],
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          "white",
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        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌsti/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌsti"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "dusty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dustee"
}

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