Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mustifino

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mus-tifi-no
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of musteefino.

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 ."
"This whitewashing confirmed that mustifinos and lighter-skinned coloureds, namely, those persons at least three degrees removed in lineal descent from a ..."
"[…] 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."

Etymology

Variant of musteefino.

Inflected Forms

mustifinos (plural)

Questions

What does mustifino mean?: Alternative form of musteefino.
Where does mustifino come from?: Variant of musteefino.

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