Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A white man: used by the blacks of the African coast, the West Indies, and the southern United States.
- White: as, buckra yam, white yam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
- adjective White; white man's; strong; good.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare, African American Vernacular, derogatory A
poor white person. - adjective African American Vernacular, archaic
white
Etymologies
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Examples
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Steele is the first black man I've ever known to have the qualities of a buckra .......
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Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter.
My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica Ian Thomson 2010
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This night good buckra man give grand dance and much kous kous; 'cause Captain Orford makes himself all one with Missee Rosa; so run and tell merry Jonkanoo to get him big head on, and all dansa, dansa, like mad.
Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002
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Bless her heart! she bery kind lady, she make fine wife for buckra man.
Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002
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Right, Quashee: and there's a buckra man coming to make a fine husband for herCaptain Orford, to whom she has long given her heart, returns this very day to claim her hand.
Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002
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But the Negroes call the poor white trash, po-buckra.
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So buckra is really, well-to-do, upstanding, well-padded white people.
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They didn't say rich buckra they say big buckra and po buckra ..
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Buckra, but they would say po buckra and then they call the white folks big buckra.
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In Indian languages, moreover, certain words were discovered which appeared originally in an African language, such as “canoe,” “tobacco,” and “buckra.”
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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