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Massa
Also massa, marsa. Also written Mas'r.
Representing master in the written form of Black speech.
1774Foote Cozeners iii. Wks. 1799 II. 190 Who opened the window?.. Little massa. 1821P. Egan Life in London ii. v. 289 But the black slavey, who is entering the room, is singing out, ‘Massa, you ought to be shamed.’ 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. vi, ‘Lord bless us, Mas'r’, said Sam. 1881R. M. Ballantyne Giant of North v, What am it, massa? Why, it am a bit o' salt pork. 1890Century Mag. Nov. 65 Suit you, marsa? 1935in Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. i. 25 It was night and Ole Massa sent John, his favorite slave, down to the spring to get him a cool drink of water. 1953Caribbean Q. III. iii. 157 As one writer put it:..It has ever been their practice, to prevent the extension of useful practical knowledge, other than the hewing of cane fields, and feeding the mill, to the Negro lest he may one day rise to the rank of an Overseer, and supersede Massa Busher (Overseer). 1973Sunday Express (Trinidad & Tobago) 8 Apr. 13/3 Day after day he sat glued to the t.v. and behaved generally as though he didn't know ‘massa day is done’. 1973J. Ryder Trevayne (1974) xi. 94 ‘I'll set up interviews.’ Bonner looked at Andrew and laughed. ‘Your interviews, massa.’ |