mestee
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of mestee
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
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noun
- A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
- A member of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry, like the Melungeons and a person referred to as a brass ankle.
- A person who is mostly white and less than one eighth black.
- In the West Indies, a person who is one eighth black (an octoroon).
- Synonym of mustee.
adj
- (not-comparable)Of mixed race people, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
- (not-comparable)Of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry.
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Etymology
Usually from Middle French mestis (“a person of mixed race”), from Latin mixtus (Modern French métis); cognate with Spanish mestizo. Doublet of Metis, metis, mestizo, and mustee. Sometimes from Colonial Louisiana French mestif "child of an Octoroon and a white person" (15/16 white, 1/16 black), from Old French mestif (“mongrel”)
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