| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Geechee |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Gee·chee |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  g  ch |
| NOUN: | Coastal South Carolina and Georgia 1a. The Gullah creole. b. A speaker of Gullah. 2. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Ultimately after the Ogeechee River, Georgia, along which distinctive varieties of Black English were spoken.
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