cullud pusson

plural cullud pussons · plural cullud people

1. USethnicobsoleteslurA colored person (one with black skin).

   Well, the cullud pusson I knew was swallowed by an alligator, because he told a lie.

   1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 49

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   […] not a long time before, had charmed the last dollar from my waistcoat pocket by exhibiting, à la Barnum, a remarkably ugly "cullud pusson" on his pulpit stairs, and by picturing the awful doom which awaited her […]

   1862, James Roberts Gilmore, Among the Pines: Or, South in Secession-time, page 57

   De niggers prayed, but it didn't do no good, as de Yankees only frowed de more shells, and de Lord seemed deaf to de petitions of the cullud pussons.

   1885, W. W. Breese, The Cornucopia: Or, Horn of Plenty, page 407

   "Meg," said Elsie, as Margaret came wearily into the house at the noon hour, "what have you been trying to do with those good-for-nothing 'cullud pussons' out there?" "Teach them a little responsibility, that is all."

   1891, Alice Elinor Bartlett, A New Aristocracy, page 78