Gullah
Americannoun
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a member of a population of Black Americans inhabiting the Sea Islands and the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida.
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a creolized form of English spoken by the Gullahs, containing many words and grammatical features derived from African languages.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people living on the Sea Islands or in the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and NE Florida
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the creolized English spoken by these people
Etymology
Origin of Gullah
1730–40; of uncertain origin; variously identified with Angola or the Gola, a Liberian ethnic group
Example Sentences
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Charley Hullah, who works as a freelance creative, has spent the last nine years acting as a property guardian, where he lives in vacant spaces like abandoned offices and schools rather than normal rental properties.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2022
"We old men are garrulous," Hullah says in passing, and he seems in no greater hurry to end his life story than he does to stop living.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hullah fell in love but once, at age 24, and then lost her, at least formally, when the woman married one of his closest school friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are also settings by Stevenson and Hullah.
From Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, James T.
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