buckra

== English == === Alternative forms === backra, bakra, buccra === Etymology === From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara; compare Gullah buckra (“white person”). Doublet of bakkra. === Noun === buckra (plural buckras) (Caribbean, derogatory) A white person. (dated, now rare, African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A poor white person. 1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,[6] What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me. === Adjective === buckra (not comparable) (African-American Vernacular, archaic) White. a buckra yam === Anagrams === burcak == Gullah == === Alternative forms === bukra, buckruh === Etymology === From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara. Compare Jamaican Creole buckra, Sranan Tongo bakra. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bʌkrə/ === Noun === buckra white person === Further reading === Frederic Cassidy, "Sources of the African Element in Gullah" in Lawrence Carrington (ed.), Studies in Caribbean Language (1983). == Jamaican Creole == === Noun === buckra (plural buckra dem, quantified buckra, Cassidy/JLU orthography spelling bakra) alternative spelling of bakra