niggerish

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English

Etymology

From nigger +‎ -ish.

Adjective

niggerish (comparative more niggerish, superlative most niggerish)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar) Like or characteristic of a nigger.
    • 1866, The Atlantic Monthly:
      So when I say that my Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind...
    • 1886, Michael Magaul, Eli Robinson McCall, No-history Versus No-war or The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed, page 261:
      hey should specially avoid the fanatics who […] have temporarily changed a federal republic into a sort of niggerish monarchy or empire […]
    • 1958, “Talking About”, in Jet, volume 14, number 3, page 47:
      She told him in her native Virginia mountain-area dialect: "That's what ah said. Ah don't like these niggerish places."
    • 2002, Loretta I Winters, Herman L DeBose, New faces in a changing America:
      In a voice dripping with sarcasm, Bernhard related, "Mariah's been getting a little niggerish on us... she been seeing those rap stars..."

Synonyms

Noun

niggerish (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, vulgar, ethnic slur, colloquial, chiefly US) African-American Vernacular English.
    • 2006 August 22, [email protected], “POLLING”, in alt.music.white-power‎ (Usenet):
      You all seem really fucked-up, talking niggerish and all--'taken care
      of' means ELIMINATION thru DEADLY MEANS! SEE its POLL @ goodbuddytoil
      on YAHOO.
    • 2008 November 21, Patriot Games, “FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE GEORGE W BUSH AND REPUBLICANS-FINANCIAL CRISIS IS NOT THE DEMS FAULT!”, in alt.politics‎ (Usenet):
      But the good news is he's gonna make us all learn Spanish and
      Niggerish and I figure when we are called to arms being able to tell
      the Beaners and the Nappy Power Rangers what we think so they can
      understand it is a good thing.
    • 2015, Evelyn Uddin-Khan, The Other Side of Teaching:
      One boy claims he speaks “niggerish." Whatever they are speaking I do not understand, which is good.

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