mustee

English

Etymology

From mestizo (noun).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mʌˈstiː/, /mʌsˈtiː/, /ˈmʌstiː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈsti/, /ˈməsti/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

mustee (plural mustees)

1. (archaic) A person of one-eighth African ancestry.

   Synonyms: octaroon, octoroon

   • 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493

     a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;

   • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus‎:

     Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.

Coordinate terms

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

Derived terms

• musteefino
• mustiphini

Anagrams

• meutes