Meanings
nounPotogee (plural Potogees)
plural Potogees
- CaribbeanA Portuguese person.
'Is these Potogees who cause the trouble, you know,' he said. 'They have their hands in the stinking salt-fish barrel and they are still the first to talk of nigger this and coolie that.'
2012, V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited, →ISBN
Origin
From Portuguese, as pronounced/rendered in various Caribbean English dialects and creoles like Guyanese Creole English.
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Potogee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Potogee
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Potogee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Potogee.
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