Also buccra, buckara, buccara, buckree, -ro. [In negro patois of Surinam, bakra, master. According to J. L. Wilson, quoted in Mahn’s Webster, in lang. of Calabar coast, ‘demon, powerful and superior being.’ H. Goldie, Dict. of Efik Lang. (of Old Calabar) has mbākara, mākara, white man, European, f. kara to encompass, get round, master (a subject).]
A white man (in negro talk).
1794. European Mag., XXVI. 144. De noder day When Buckro no be beating.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, II. x. Ah, piccaninny buccra! how you do?
1863. 20 Yrs. in W. Ind., &c. in Reader, 21 Feb., 189. ‘Buckra die hard this time said the negroes; ‘Since Gospel come buckra die hard.’
