nigger

Nigger is an offensive term for a black person.

(noun)

An example of a nigger is what a white supremicist would call an African American person.

See nigger in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Dialectal, Slang Negro

See nigger in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Offensive Slang

a. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: “You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger” (James Baldwin).
b. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people.

Origin:

Origin: Alteration of dialectal neger, black person

Origin: , from French nègre

Origin: , from Spanish negro; see Negro

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