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buck⋅ra

  [buhk-ruh]
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–noun Southern U.S. (chiefly South Atlantic States).
a white man (often used disparagingly).
Origin:
1685–90; of uncert. orig.; often alleged to be < Efik m̀bakára white man; cf. Jamaican E backra, earlier E sp. bochara, bacceroe, backearary
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Word Origin & History

buckra 
disparaging term among U.S. blacks for "white person," especially a poor one, 1790, apparently from an African language; cf. mbakara "master" in Efik, a language of the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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