nigger

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A black person

   A black person; a person of black African descent.

   • It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.
   • “Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said.
2. 2

   A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like…

   A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).

   • He never lost his appetite - He bigger grew and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger.
   • Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.
3. 3

   A friend, particularly a fellow black person (often as an informal term of address).

   • “Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.”
   • I wonna say whassup to all my Niggers, you know, peace and one love.
   • I had overheard him greet a buddy who called him on the phone with "Yo, nigger, what's up?"
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   1. 4

      A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).

   2. 5

      A member of a group that is oppressed or marginalized in the manner of black people.

      • Woman is the nigger of the world / Yes, she is / If you don’t believe me, take a look at the one you’re with / Woman is the slave to the slaves
   3. 6

      Any of various dark animals

      Any of various dark animals:

   4. 7

      An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial…

      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.

      • Now to locate the portion of the machine which contains the "nigger."
   5. 8

      A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face,…

      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.

   6. 9

      A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and…

      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.

      • Well, it's a big heavy line, and you operate the nigger — capstan it's also called — by steam. You wrap your line around that and keep taking in the slack, and that draws up them things.
   7. 10

      A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special…

      A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.

      • Care should be taken to check visually from the position occupied by the subject and from the camera also, to ascertain that the nigger is positioned correctly and does not obstruct the picture area.
   8. 11

      To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and…

      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.

      • The operation was this: they placed smaller logs and dry rubbish across the log and applied fire to them; this was called “niggering”.
      • All day long his axe rang through the frosty air as he felled saplings for the fence and stripped them from fuel for the “niggering” fires.
   9. 12

      To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.

   10. 13

       To perform in blackface.

       • There is a general agreement that niggering took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.
   11. 14

       To behave as a stereotypical black person.

       • His father said, “Niggering, I was niggering about. You knew that surely.”
       • Forrest’s rediscovery of his father coincides with his discovery that old Robinson’s “niggering around” produced at least one child of mixed race.
       • I mean he was niggering. Niggering out, grabbing at my leg and microphone cord. I said, ‘Stop that you damn nigger!’ and that takes guts!
   12. 15

       To treat as inferior.

       • The gated community is a powerful tool in the systematic and sustained niggering of local 3rd-world communities - namely, in the book, the Hispanic (mostly wetbacK^([sic])) community[.]
       • > He is on TV saying that he was "abused" by the police and treated like a nigger.
       • Why would many Paletinians^([sic]) want to return to a land where they would be "niggered" for the benefit of the Israelis as the present Palestinian population is[?]
   13. 16

       A given name for a black pet.

       • Gibson's real affinity is with his dog, Nigger. When we first see Gibson returning from a raid, he is overjoyed to see his four-legged friend […]
   14. 17

       Niger (nation).

       • Recently the head nigger arrested 60 children from Benin, Togo, Niggeria, Ghana and Nigger, along with 20 of their Slave Masters, who were immigrants from West Africoonia.
       • >Why are you critters so ashamed of being identified with your >Africoonian origins? Niggeria and Nigger have vast amounts of natural >resources[…]
       • More recently, in 2005, it > was mass protests in Niamey, the capital of Nigger, that made the head > nigger wake up and take notice of that year's food crisis,[…]

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