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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He connects that influence to a dish from his own childhood, Chicken Bob— a comforting Gullah Geechee dish his mother often made.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
Small communities descended from enslaved island populations in the South, known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, are scattered along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
The writer traveled to seven praise houses in South Carolina and Georgia, along the Gullah Geechee Corridor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
Nearby, an elderly member of South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee people — descendants of Africans who were forced to labor on plantations along the Atlantic Coast — was busy weaving a traditional hat out of sweetgrass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Late in the evening we will sometimes pull into the dirt parking lot of a clapboard praise house and listen to old, dark Gullah hymns rising out the windows.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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