mustee
/mʌˈstiː/ /mʌsˈtiː/ /ˈmʌstiː/(also mustée) Now chiefly historical
noun
A person of mixed European and African descent; (sometimes) specifically a person with one white-skinned parent and the other one-quarter black. Also more generally: a person of mixed racial descent.
Origin
Late 17th century. Shortened from mestizo, perhaps arising by mistaken analysis of such plural forms as musteeses.
- lead nowhere
- lead off
- lead pencil
- lead poisoning
- lead shot
- lead someone a dance (or a merry dance)
- lead someone a merry dance
- lead someone astray
- lead someone by the nose
- lead someone on
- lead someone to the altar
- lead someone up (or down) the garden path
- lead someone up the aisle
- lead story
- lead-swinger
- lead tetraethyl
- lead the field
- Southern Lights
- southernliness
- southernly
- southern magnolia
- southern manatee
- southernmost
- southernness
- Southern Ocean