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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Gullah creole.
  • noun A speaker of Gullah.
  • noun Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Ultimately after the Ogeechee, River, Georgia, along which distinctive varieties of Black English were spoken.]

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