octoroon
Plural: octoroons
Noun
- an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
- Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
- Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish octorón, compare quadroon from cuarterón (“quadroon”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
octoroon is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordoctoroon is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
octoroon is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
octoroon is a valid Words With Friends word