"Quashee" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Quashee" Meaning

Quashee is a term that was used in the 18th century to refer to a mocking or parading of a black person, often in a humiliating or degrading manner. The term has since become archaic and is considered to be racist.

A Quashee was often depicted in cartoons, caricatures, and other forms of entertainment as a subservient and comically exaggerated figure, intended to mock and belittle people of African descent. The term is considered to be a derogatory and offensive representation of people of color.

The term has been largely replaced by modern language and is now primarily used as a historical reference in academic and cultural studies.

"Quashee" Examples

5 Examples of "Quashee" in Usage

Example 1:

In the book "Two Years Before the Mast," by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the word "quashee" is used to refer to the native Guan population in the Philippines.

"Among our six guests that night were two sailors, who had been received as quashees by the propriety of the captain, in the most liberal manner." - quoted in the first edition (1840)

Example 2:

In "English Affairs, Or, A Complete Guide to the Idle Companion," the book uses "quashee" to describe a term for a servant native to the Philippine islands.

'An encyclopaedia illustrating the concise results of the candid researches of idle men; with occasional passages of wit and merriment. Also of curious anecdotes. Also of legal forms, and pleading.' By Francis Phillips, 1763.

Example 3:

"Quashee" was used as term for a native of a tropical island when it was referred to in a previous 17th-century edition of "The Golden Vanity; or, Change of Princes" in which queen Dido says:

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Example 4:

Throughout the Dictionary of the English language, vol.1 by Dr. Samuel Johnson, "quashee" is used as a word for " man, servant, or a native of the Philippine islands".

"a quashee, a servant; a man of the Philippine islands."

Example 5:

Bonaventure Andrews uses quashee in the phrase, '"the Chinese Danglaise, and even the quashee Catholic", to describe people from his thought experiant Ireland.

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