Potogee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese, as pronounced/rendered in various Caribbean English dialects and creoles like Guyanese Creole English.

Noun[edit]

Potogee (plural Potogees)

  1. (Caribbean) A Portuguese person.
    • 2012, V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited, →ISBN:
      'Is these Potogees who cause the trouble, you know,' he said. 'They have their hands in the stinking salt-fish barrel and they are still the first to talk of nigger this and coolie that.'

Anagrams[edit]

Guyanese Creole English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English Portuguese.

Noun[edit]

Potogee

  1. a Portuguese person