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incognegro

adj

Etymology

Blend of incognito + negro.

  1. derived from *negʷ-✻ — “bare; night”
  2. derived from niger — “shiny black”
  3. borrowed from negro — “black”
  4. compounded as incognegro — “incognito + negro”

Definitions

  1. Hiding one's blackness.

    • By Malik's words I knew I had shed my incognegro shell. What was emerging was a black man, a strong black man.
    • Incognegro: From Black Power to Apartheid and Back
    • That's the thing: she ain't really a white lady. She's Xavier's cousin. She just going incognegro.

The neighborhood

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