Word: buckra
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...drink with a man," snarls the high-fashion New Orleans harlot (Capucine) to the lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck), "not with you!" The madam gasps: "You're being perverse!" She doesn't know the half of it. Suddenly the shameless hussy runs off to marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses to fly back to the coop. Bang! Dead pigeon...
Gullah contains many strange idioms and words such as buckra (meaning white man or devil). According to Dr. Greet, Gullah and the language of Cape Cod are the only genuine dialects within...
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