Potogee
English
Etymology
From Portuguese, as pronounced/rendered in various Caribbean English dialects and creoles like Guyanese Creole English.
Noun
Potogee (plural Potogees)
- (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.'
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