Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a class of people living in eastern Tennessee, of peculiar appearance and uncertain origin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.
Examples
“Nobody's sure what melungeon means exactly, but it doesn't sound friendly.”
“Portugee blood -- touch o 'that melungeon tribe from over in the Fur Cove.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melungeon’.
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gone for the most part -geon
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plungeon, curmudgeon, pigeon, sturgeon, dudgeon, pigwidgeon, widgeon, habergeon, smidgeon, melungeon, gudgeon, chirurgeon and 16 more...
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denizens
words that answer the question "What do you call someone from ?"
michigander, bay stater, utahn, tarheel, nutmegger, ohioan, vermonter, cantabrigian, jersey cityite, kansas citian, angeleno, sooite and 91 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Demonyms
Demonyms are words that describe a person who is citizen or resident of a particular place. There are countless demonyms so I'm collecting the slightly irregular or unusual ones.
glaswegian, bosniak, kosovar, novocastrian, us american, terran, grecian, yolngu, aztec, cantabrigian, norse, leopolitan and 102 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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redchuck's Words
diagetic, melungeon, palimpsest, y'all, fandango, corpuscule, dibble, bedouin, flanger, antediluvian, camphor, nadir and 69 more...
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Peoples and culture
hopi, navajo, indigenous, catalan, quaker, inuit, yoga, dance, flemish, feast, work, folkways and 35 more...
Tweets
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yaybob Melungeons are people found in and around pre-American North Carolina who were free but not considered white, usually because of an infusion of native American and/or Mediterranean blood:
"When the Spanish withdrew from North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia under British pressure, they left behind many part Indian children and probably quite a few Jews, Moors and Muslim slaves."
"Francis Drake stopped at Roanoke for some months on his way back from raiding Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. He had several hundred Muslim seamen with him who had been freed from the Spanish and were being returned to Morocco and the Ottoman Empire." Dec 13, 2008
sionnach Ooh, a new denizen word - goody gumdrops! Thanks, bilby. Jan 2, 2008
bilby Good reference here . Jan 2, 2008