Geechee

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of Ogeechee. From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled.[1] From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

Proper noun

Geechee

  1. Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)

Noun

Geechee (plural Geechees or Geechee)

  1. Gullah (member of South Carolina island culture)

Adjective

Geechee (comparative more Geechee, superlative most Geechee)

  1. Gullah (pertaining to South Carolina island culture)

References
  1. F. W. Bradley, "A Word-List from South Carolina", Publications of the American Dialect Society, Number 14, November 1950
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