niggery

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English

Etymology

From nigger +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

niggery (comparative more niggery, superlative most niggery)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.
    • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
      She remembered the hot sun, the soft red earth under her sick head, the niggery smell of the cabin behind the ruins of Twelve Oaks, remembered the refrain her heart had beaten []
    • 2004, Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality, page 499:
      [] hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.
    • 2009, Mark M Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, page 138:
      Reba's high-minded, skinned grandmother “had taught me that it was good fashion to dress simply and not wear loud colors and earrings and fake jewelry. I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.

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