"fellow" = "A black man"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> Isn't it the case that in the South, since the early-20th century at least, "fellow" has been more common in the sense of 'generic male' than in other regions, where "guy" is prevalent?
>

"Seem like to me," as my mother would say. I learned the word from the
gangster movies of the 'Forties. In real life in Saint Louis, "stud"
replaced "fellow" amongst us chirren, but not amongst the adults, who,
after a couple of dekkids, began to use "guy," except in the
pretty-much fixed collocations, "colored fellow"/"white fellow."

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