Quashi

British

/ ˈkwɑːʃɪ /

noun

an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant

I'm not a Quashi that anyone can fool

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Etymology

Origin of Quashi

from Twi

Example Sentences

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

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

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In the morning I had been following a new species of paroquet, and, the day being rainy, I had taken an umbrella to keep the gun dry, and had left it under a tree; in the afternoon I took Daddy Quashi with me to look for it.

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In the meantime Daddy Quashi, having found the umbrella and having heard the noise which the fray occasioned, was coming cautiously up.

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

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