Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A white man: used by the blacks of the African coast, the West Indies, and the southern United States.
  • White: as, buckra yam, white yam.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective White; white man's; strong; good.
  • noun A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rare, African American Vernacular, derogatory A poor white person.
  • adjective African American Vernacular, archaic white

Etymologies

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possibly from mbakara ("master") in Efik, a language of the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria

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