English

Noun

guinea keet ‎(plural guinea keets)

1. (US, dialectal) A guinea fowl
   • c. 1919-1924 (published 1926), Blanche Colton Wialliams, Best American Stories, 1919-1924, Doubleday, Page 203

     “Say, Annie, do you know a chicken when you see it walking round? Or a turkey? Or a guinea keet? We got em all, Aunt Dolcey, she takes car of ’em”

   • 1963, Cecil Robinson, With the Ears of Strangers: The Mexican in American Literature, University of Arizona Press, Page 77

     ...but after they've calved a time or two they swell up like a cow in a truck patch an’ you need a wagon to move ’em. They do nothin’ but eat and holler like a guinea keet....

   • 2001, Richard S. Raffauf, Journal of a Country Gentleman, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1552128911, page 26

     George (the male Guinea keet) was half through a hole in the fence losing many feathers to Red, who was trying to help him back into the pen.