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Noun: "A nigger of diminutive stature"
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1826 August, The United States Literary Gazette, volume 4, numbers 9-10, page 326:Accordingly there was a satisfactory communication of sweat between me and some dozens of His Majesty's. It is a large open room with the floor covered with wooden trays, and in each tray a naked niggerling.
1864, Thomas Hood, “A Black Job”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, volume 1, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 308:And all the little Niggerlings emerge / As lily-white as mussels.
1981, Ronald Firbank, “Prancing Nigger”, in Five Novels, →ISBN, →OL, page 142:'Yes, missey,' the niggerling acquiesced, bestowing a slow smile on Snob and Snowball, who had accompanied him into the room.
Noun: "A malapropism of sniggering"
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- 2005, John Ruganda, Black mamba: a play, page 52
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