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nigger Definition

nig·ger (nig′ər)

noun

Dialectal, Slang Negro

Usage Note originally simply a dialectal variant of Negro, the term nigger is today acceptable only in black English; in all other contexts it is now generally regarded as virtually taboo because of the legacy of racial hatred that underlies the history of its use among whites, and its continuing use among a minority of speakers as a viciously hostile epithet

nigger Usage Examples

Converse of object

    Adjective modifier

      Modifies a noun

        Noun used with modifier

          Possessives

            Preposition: for

    nigger Quotes

      I will get me a bottle of Boston sea And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues. I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

    —Bene¤  t, StephenVincent

       It wasfifteenminutesbefore Icouldwork myself up togo and humblemyselftoaniggeröbut Idoneit, and Iwarn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn'done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.

    —Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

    I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound colonial education, I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me, and either I'm nobody or I'm a nation.

    —Walcott, Derek Alton