Definitions for guinea



Overview of noun guinea

The noun guinea has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. guinea

(a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings)

2. wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball

((ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent)

3. Guinea, Republic of Guinea, French Guinea

(a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958)

4. guinea fowl, guinea, Numida meleagris

(a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world)

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