Boogalee

Quick meaning: Boogalee is a noun meaning (sometimes derogatory) A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry).

Meaning

(sometimes derogatory) A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry).

Example Sentences

To Bobby's schoolmates there, he was more than a non-English speaker, he was a Boogalee, a New Orleanian's derogatory term for a Cadien, or Cajun. The city boys teased Bobby about his hand-me-down coveralls […]

Avis Trosclair was a boogalee, a Cajun from the deepest bayous of Louisiana, a man of vast inner resources of happiness. About 42 years old, he talked with a perpetual love of humorous conversation, with a Cajun accent.

We were considered pleasant to be around in spite of—or perhaps because of—a supposed utter lack of ambition. We were routinely called “boogalees” behind our backs and “coon-asses” to our faces. But times were changing, […]

After the war some of us bought a houseboat on Vermilion Bay near Tigre au Chenier. Walter got everything organized. It was just like him to locate a cook-caretaker living right out there in the swamp and to line up some real boogalee guides.

Word Forms

• boogalees
• boogerlee

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boogerlee, boogaloo, boogie, jiggaboo, cajun, coonass.

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