Meanings
plural mustifinos
- alternativeAlternative form of musteefino.
This whitewashing confirmed that mustifinos and lighter-skinned coloureds, namely, those persons at least three degrees removed in lineal descent from a ...
2005, Veronica Marie Gregg, Caribbean Women: An Anthology of Non-fiction Writing, 1890-1980, →ISBN2 more examples
[…] the triangulations involved in the fearsome rape and shameful begetting of mulattoes, mustees, zambos, and mustifinos when captains and overseers and bosses made their "retching rampage among the luminous Black pudding,” to use Gwen Brooks's phrase .
1992, Richard Kenneth Barksdale, Praisesong of Survival: Lectures and Essays, 1957-89, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74[…] my mother [is] no longer called a quadroon; I am not called an octoroon, my children will not be named mustifees and my grandchildren will not be mustifinos.
2017, Cathy J. Schlund Vials, Tara Betts, Sean Frederick Forbes, The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, 2Leaf Press, →ISBN
Origin
Variant of musteefino.
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mustifino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustifino
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