Definition of Geechee

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Gee·chee    (gch) KEY 

NOUN:
Coastal South Carolina and Georgia

1. 1. The Gullah creole.
   2. A speaker of Gullah.
2. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Ultimately after the Ogeechee River, Georgia, along which distinctive varieties of Black English were spoken