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Gee⋅chee

  [gee-chee]
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–noun
Gullah.
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Gee·chee   (gē'chē)   
n.   Coastal South Carolina and Georgia

    1. The Gullah creole.

    2. 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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