English Explanatory Dictionary

Geechee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)
noun
  1. Gullah (member of South Carolina island culture)
adj
  1. Gullah (pertaining to South Carolina island culture)

Word forms

Geechee Geechy Geechie Geechees more Geechee most Geechee

Etymology

Clipping of Ogeechee. From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled. From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

Derived words

Gullah Geechee
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