house nigger noun2 •(offensive, old-fashioned) A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.If massa was sick, house nigger would come 'round and say, “Massa we sick, ain't we? — 2008 •(offensive) A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor."You look like a house nigger." — 2003 formshouse niggers