Quashee

English Noun en archaic A black inhabitant of the West Indies. en 1858 Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine 83 400 It is clear, therefore, that he has no particular dread of making a Quashee of his Makololo, and that the idea of improving, civilising, and elevating this race, is no Utopian thought to the individual who knows them best. en 1861 Eliakim Littell; Robert S. Littell The Living Age 71 281 Those, for example, who imagine that our West Indies are in a state of ruin, inhabited by a horde of half-savage Quashees, "up to the ears in pumpkin," as Mr. Carlyle was pleased to describe them, will be surprised to learn that, in the four years ending with 1857, the exports and imports of these small islands were valued at £37,000,000... Alternative forms en quashee Quashie Related terms en quassia