mestee
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
noun
A member of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry, like the Melungeons and a person referred to as a brass ankle.
noun
In the West Indies, a person who is one eighth black (an octoroon).
adj
Of mixed race people, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
adj
Of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry.
Etymology
Usually from Middle French mestis (“a person of mixed race”), from Latin mixtus (Modern French métis); cognate with Spanish mestizo. Doublet of Metis, metis, mestizo, and mustee. Sometimes from Colonial Louisiana French mestif "child of an Octoroon and a white person" (15/16 white, 1/16 black), from Old French mestif (“mongrel”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mestis, mixtus
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Africans and Native Americans