Geechee


Gee·chee

G0069950 (gē′chē) n. Coastal South Carolina and Georgia 1. a. 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.
[Perhaps after the Ogeeche River (around which some Gullah communities live) or perhaps from Kissi (Atlantic Niger-Congo language of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) kìsì-, ethnic self-designation of the Kissi people (as in kìsìéí, the Kissi language).]

geechee

(ˈɡiːtʃiː) n1. (Languages) a dialect combining elements of English and native African languages, originally spoken by Black slaves in the area of the Ogeechee river in the south of the USA2. (Languages) a person who speaks this dialect