dustee

English

Etymology

Perhaps from dusty? With regard to the ending, compare costee, fustee, mustee/mestee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌsti/
• Rhymes: -ʌsti
• Homophone: dusty

Noun

dustee (plural dustees)

1. (uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white.
   • 1893, Charles Frederick Pascoe, Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1892, page 223:

     In his first year's ministry in Long Island Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 "Blacks, Mulattoes, Mustees and Dustees." The negroes there had been "misled by strange doctrines." They called themselves "Baptists, the followers of St. John," ...

   • c. 1844, unknown author, Antigua and the Antiguans, (Complete) a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants From the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day (→ISBN):

     The several removes from a black are as follows:—The mongrel, the offspring of a black and a mulatto; the mulatto, the offspring of a black and a white; the mustee, the offspring of a mulatto and a white; the fustee, the offspring of a mustee and a white; and the dustee, the offspring of a fustee and a white. This last gradation is the connecting link between the degraded children of Ham, and the descendants of his more honoured brethren.

Anagrams

• etudes, études