Quashi

/ ˈkwɑːʃɪ /

noun

an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant
I'm not a Quashi that anyone can fool

Origin of Quashi¹

from Twi

Daddy Quashi boiled one of them for his dinner, and found it very sweet and tender.

Daddy Quashi was again beginning to remonstrate, and I chased him on the sandbank for a quarter of a mile.

Daddy Quashi was for applying to our guns, as usual, considering them our best and safest friends.

Quashi's fiddle was silent, and mute was the lute of Venus during my stay in Barbadoes.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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