nigger
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
Converse of object
Adjective modifier
Modifies a noun
Noun used with modifier
Possessives
Preposition: for
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.
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.
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.
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