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Wiktionary

  1. buckranoun

    A poor white person.

  2. Etymology: possibly from mbakara ("master") in Efik, a language of the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria

Wikipedia

  1. Buckra

    Buckra is a slang term primarily used by the Gullah people in the Southeast United States to describe a white man.It derives from Ibibio-Efik, mbakara ‘European, master’."De nigger was de right arm of de buckra class. De buckra was de horn of plenty for de nigger. Both suffer in consequence of freedom."...(Moses Lyles, a former slave in South Carolina, speaking in the 1930s). As clearly noted in this 1916 publication, there was also the white trash level of buckra, referred to by both Southern races as "poor buckras"...locally pronounced "po' buckras".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Buckranoun

    a white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc

  2. Buckraadjective

    white; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam

Wikidata

  1. Buckra

    Buckra is a slang offensive term primarily used by African-Americans in the Southeast United States to describe a white man or a boss. It is generally thought to derive from the Efik and Ibibio languages' word "mbakara", meaning "master".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Buckra

    buk′ra, n. a word used by West Indian and American negroes for a white man—said in a dialect of the Calabar coast to mean 'demon.'

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. buckra

    A term for white man, used by the blacks in the West Indies, Southern States of America, and the African coast.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of buckra in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of buckra in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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