exodust
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from Exoduster.
Verb edit
exodust (third-person singular simple present exodusts, present participle exodusting, simple past and past participle exodusted)
- (US, historical) Of an African-American: To leave a Southern state as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
Usage notes edit
This verb is very rarely found in the forms exodust or exodusts. The participles exodusted and exodusting occur frequently in late 19th-century texts on this topic.