Quashee

Quashee [kwah-shee] Examples noun

1. a male day name for Sunday.See under day name.

day name noun

1. (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child’s sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba), Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba), Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba), Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba), Thursday (Quao and Abba), Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi), and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba).

Examples from the Web for quashee Historical Examples of quashee

Adieu, Quashee; I will wish you better guidance than you have had of late.

Latter-Day Pamphlets

Thomas Carlyle

Quashee, black and ignorant as he may be, will not “get himself made a slave again.”

The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)

John Greenleaf Whittier

He ridiculed the black man, and described the poor patient African as “Quashee, steeped to the eyes in pumpkin.”

Nineteenth Century Questions

James Freeman Clarke

Quashee has already victuals, clothing; Quashee is not dying of such despair as the yellow-coloured pale man’s.

Past and Present

Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for quashee day name noun

1. Western African a name indicating a person’s day of birth