Nigger
['nɪgə] or ['nɪɡɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; 'only a Black can call another Black a nigga'.
Edited by Georgina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.
Typed by Geraldine
Definition
n. a black man a negro: a native of the East Indies or one of the Australian aborigines: a black caterpillar: a Cornish holothurian.—v.t. to exhaust soil by cropping it year by year without manure.—n. Nigg′erdom niggers collectively.—adjs. Nigg′erish Nigg′ery.—ns. Nigg′er-kill′er a scorpion; Nigg′erling a little nigger.
Checker: Quincy
Examples
- If the nigger's got anything of this sort going, trip him up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And, I'll tell him ye won't let the women come to the mills, yo old nigger! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After all, what a fuss, for a dead nigger! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So she would, said Andy; but can't ye see through a ladder, ye black nigger? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He'd invent that, I'll be bound; let a nigger alone for that, any time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He's an uncommon old nigger, then! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When one nigger's dead, I buy another; and I find it comes cheaper and easier, every way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He'll be the first nigger that ever came it round me! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now, ye see, you'd better jest settle down comfortable, and not be tryin' no tricks; because nigger's tricks of all sorts I'm up to, and it's no use. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Come, said he, ye nigger, ye'r ready? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No more nigger dan you be, Miss Rosa, said Dinah, who felt this last remark a reflection on herself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here, Andy, you nigger, be alive! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'll give five dollars to any nigger as catches 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I 's nothin but a nigger, no ways! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Don't see what Mas'r St. Clare wants of 'nother nigger! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers, said the man, if that's the way of Providence,--won't we, Squire? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I have none o' yer bawling, praying, singing niggers on my place; so remember. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Miss Eva, you 's so good, you don't know nothing how to get along with niggers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't sell dead niggers, said Legree, doggedly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't go for savin' niggers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That's the way I begin with my niggers, he said, to a gentlemanly man, who had stood by him during his speech. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- See how ye'll look, now, helpin' Mas'r's niggers to run away! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'll speechify these yer niggers, said Sam to himself, now I've got a chance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There can't nobody love niggers, and niggers can't do nothin'! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Some folks don't believe there is pious niggers Shelby, said Haley, with a candid flourish of his hand, but _I do_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Cert'nly not,' replied Mr. Weller; 'what's the good o' flannel veskits to the young niggers abroad? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I go in for making niggers careful; one suit has to do for one year, on my place. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had been taken in so by niggers whom he had favored; but still he was astonished to consider how good-natured he yet remained! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I never was afraid of niggers, and I an't going to be now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Melba