mustee

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UK/mʌˈstiː/UK/mʌsˈtiː/UK/ˈmʌstiː/US/məˈsti/

noun

A person of one-eighth African ancestry.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounmustee (plural mustees)

plural mustees

  1. archaicA person of one-eighth African ancestry.

    Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.

    1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
    1 more example

    a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;

    1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493

    Synonyms: octaroon, octoroon

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA person of one-eighth African ancestry.

Origin

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APA

mustee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustee

MLA

“mustee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mustee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustee.

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