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nigger

UK /ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/US /ˈnɪɡɚ/

noun 15
verb 5
forms 4
phrases 4

noun15

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(vulgar, offensive) a black person, whose family came from Africa
- It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. — 1884
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(vulgar, offensive) A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).
- He never lost his appetite - He bigger grew and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger. — 1880
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A friend, particularly a fellow black person (often as an informal term of address).
- “Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.” — 1997
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(vulgar, offensive) A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves).
- There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up. — 1996
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(offensive) A member of a group that is oppressed or marginalized in the manner of black people.
- Woman is the nigger of the world / Yes, she is / If you don’t believe me, take a look at the one you’re with / Woman is the slave to the slaves — 1972
(figurative) A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).
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(old-fashioned) A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.
- Care should be taken to check visually from the position occupied by the subject and from the camera also, to ascertain that the nigger is positioned correctly and does not obstruct the picture area. — 1961
(offensive) Any of various dark animals.
(offensive) Any member of species Girella tricuspidata (luderick).
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(offensive, old-fashioned) A dark brown nymphalid butterfly, Orsotriaena medus, of south Asia, southeast Asia, and Australia.
- Nigger (Male) Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse and Lyell. 1914. — 1932
(offensive, no longer used) A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.
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(offensive, no longer used) The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.
- To this group belongs the nigger, or black caterpillar of the turnip, which is often in sufficient numbers to do much mischief. — 1873
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(no longer used) An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
- Now to locate the portion of the machine which contains the "nigger." — 1892
(no longer used) A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
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(US, no longer used) A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
- Well, it's a big heavy line, and you operate the nigger — capstan it's also called — by steam. You wrap your line around that and keep taking in the slack, and that draws up them things. — 1983

verb5

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(offensive) To treat as inferior.
- The gated community is a powerful tool in the systematic and sustained niggering of local 3rd-world communities - namely, in the book, the Hispanic (mostly wetbacK^([sic])) community[.] — 1997
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(offensive) To behave as a stereotypical black person.
- His father said, “Niggering, I was niggering about. You knew that surely.” — 1989
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(offensive) To perform in blackface.
- There is a general agreement that niggering took over from mummering to keep up the old custom. — 1976
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(old-fashioned) To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
- The operation was this: they placed smaller logs and dry rubbish across the log and applied fire to them; this was called “niggering”. — 1914
(vulgar, old-fashioned) To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.

forms

niggered · niggering · niggers · nigguz

Phrases with nigger

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