octoroon

IPA: ˈɑktrˈun

(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
(dated or historical, now offensive) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

Examples of "octoroon" in Sentences

One house in particular was called the octoroon house.
Video: analysis from the cake wrecks blog. tags: tales of adventure and octoroon frosting
She tells of an "octoroon" who "passed" as white, only to be killed by her husband when found out.
President, and Declaration of Independence author as his slave, concubine, mother of his unacknowledged illegitimate "octoroon" children, etc.
The octoroon was a large man, of about the size of the third lieutenant, and he could have made a good deal of mischief if he had been so disposed.
Slide 12: 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson • Homer Plessy (an "octoroon" could not ride in white railway car) • Separate but equal • One drop rule of hypodescent • Ratification of spatial segregation  legal enforcement of Jim Crow laws 12
I speculate that the word used in that other sense is a typical Oz contraction, of "octoroon" (cf. "ocky", also in AND, for "octopus"), ignorantly and locally applied to East Asiatics instead of "A person of one-eighth Aboriginal descent" (AND).