Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:57:44 EDT
Subject: Re: What is "bacra"?


In a message dated 8/1/00 2:43:25 PM Central Daylight Time, emd23-AT-cornell.edu 
writes:

<< Dear Members,
 Reading Walcott's <Pantomime>, I found the word, "bacra."   I guess it means
 boss, sahib and so on.  It's not in OED, Webster, etc.  Any body got any
 clue to the origin and use of the the word?
  >>

>From the libretto of Porgy & Bess, Act II:

"SCIPIO
Dey's a Buckra comin'

ANNIE
What he say?

SERENA
A w'ite gen'man"


Charles Orlowek


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