| 释义 |
Quashee, Quashie|ˈkwɒʃiː, ˈkwɒʃɪ|
Also 8 Quashy, 9 Quashi.
[Ashantee or Fantee Kwasi, a name commonly given to a child born on Sunday.]
A Negro personal name, adopted as a general name for any Black.
1778P. Thicknesse Year's Journey (ed. 2) II. xlv. 104 When Quashy, found the physicians had given his master over, he stole his breeches..and went off with them... The indignant master..never recovered his faithful black, nor his departed breeches. 1825C. Waterton Wanderings iv. 279 Quashi's fiddle was silent. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle (1862) 246 Then Quashie himself, or a company of free blacks. 1850Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 122 A certain sympathy with Quashee! 1889Clark Russell Marooned (1890) 275 The same Quashee whom I had supposed dead. 1960Tamarack Rev. xiv. 7 ‘Can't catch Quashie, catch his shirt’ is a West Indian proverb, so the occupiers turned to gold of another colour: brown gold, sugar. |
