guinea

Noun

guinea

1. (United States English slang, pejorative) a person of Italian descent

6 letters in word "guinea": A E G I N U.

No anagrams for guinea found in this word list.

Words found within guinea:

ae ag age agen agin ague ai ain aine an ane ani anu aune ea ean eau en eng gae gaen gain gan gane gau gaun gean gen gena genu genua gi gie gien gin gnu gu guan gue gun in na nae nag ne neg nie nu nugae ug un unai uni

• Definitions:
• a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings wop: offensive terms for a person of Italian descent a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958 guinea fowl: a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
• Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a nation in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory has a curved shape, with its base at the Atlantic ocean, inland to the east, and turning south. ...
• Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested, tropical, regions and ends at the Sahel.
• Guinea is a highly offensive ethnic slur for someone of Italian descent in the United States.
• The guinea coin of 1663 was the first British machine-struck gold coin. The coin was originally worth one pound, which was twenty shillings; but rises in the price of gold caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times as high as thirty shillings. ...
• guinea is not a slang term, it's a proper and historical word for an amount of money equating to twenty-one shillings, or in modern sterling one pound five pence. See the guinea history above.
• British gold coin with a nominal value of £1 first issued in 1663 and named after gold from Guinea in West Africa. It was unofficially revalued at 21 shillings at The Great Recoinage of 1696, a value confirmed in 1717. ...
• The principal English gold coin during the period of legal bimetalism, from 1663 until the Act of 1816. Originally issued to pass as the legal equivalent of 20 shillings of silver, this ratio for many years overvalued silver so that the guinea passed at a premium. ...
• Old unit of money equal to one pound and one shilling, (one pound and five pence in today's money)
• English money working out to the sum of one pound, one shilling. During the war, bounty money paid out to volunteers in the Provincial Corps was raised from two to three guineas, and briefly in 1781, to six guineas.
• A broad inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the great bend in the west-central coast of Africa. It includes the Bights of Benin and Biafra.
• A guinea was an English gold coin in the value of 21 shillings. In 1813 it was taken from circulation but the term remained to price the sale of horses.
• FGM is illegal in Guinea under Article 265 of the Penal Code. The punishment is hard labor for life and if death results within 40 days after the crime, the perpetrator will be sentenced to death. No cases regarding the practice under the law have ever been brought to trial. ...

• guimps ←
• guimping ←
• guimpes ←
• guinea
• → guineas
• → guipure
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