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Quashi

/ ˈkwɑːʃɪ /

noun

  1. an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant

    I'm not a Quashi that anyone can fool

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Quashi1

from Twi
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Example Sentences

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

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

Daddy Quashi hung in the rear; I showed him a large Spanish knife, which I always carried in the waistband of my trousers: it spoke volumes to him, and he shrugged up his shoulders in absolute despair. 

I don't mean your Congo Quashi or Borria Bungalee from the back-country blocks of New South Wales—our Roman bore no resemblance to them; but say your Morocco kaid, your desert chieftain from Tunis or Algiers.

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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