Nigger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
  • n. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
  • n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: "Gun owners are the new niggers . . . of society” ( John Aquilino).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent; a black person.
  • n. A person of Negro descent who acts in an unapproved manner, usually as an archetypical badass.
  • n. Informal term of address.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To behave as a stereotypical black person.
  • v. To treat as inferior.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation. It is usually intended and interpreted as highly insulting and vulgar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as niggard, 2.
  • n. A black man; a negro.
  • n. A native of the East Indies or one of the Australian aborigines.
  • n. A black caterpillar, the larva of Athalia centifolia, the turnip saw-fly.
  • n. A. kind of holothurian common off the coast of Cornwall, England: so called by Cornish fishermen.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • To burn (logs already charred or left unconsumed by former fires): with off: also, to burn (a log) in two in the middle.
  • To exhaust (soil or land) by working it year after year without manure: with out.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Negro    black person    black    Negroid    blackamoor   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    nizzle    niggerese    nigga    niggerize    niggerlike    niggerism    n-bomb    n-word    niggerish    niggerless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Negro   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Digger    bigger    digger    rigor    trigger    vigor    wigger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Negro    DAT    rascal    bastard    Gal.    mule    feller    Dem.    wench    fool