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Geechee

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Gee·chee  (gch)
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.
[Ultimately after the Ogeechee River, Georgia, along which distinctive varieties of Black English were spoken.]
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I've got earth blood, filled up with the Geechees long gone, and the sea' "(3).
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