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house nigger

noun

Etymology

By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.

Definitions

  1. A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.

    • If massa was sick, house nigger would come 'round and say, “Massa we sick, ain't we?

  2. A subservient or accultured black person

    A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.

    • "You look like a house nigger."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA