niggro

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English

Noun

niggro (plural niggros)

  1. Archaic form of negro.
    • 1868, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, “New Faces”, in Dotty Dimple Out West, Boston, M.A.: Lee and Shepard, page 89:
      O, now I remember, she's a niggro, as black as a sip."
    • 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XVI, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 154:
      The niggro is the only person who can stand the fever and ague of this region.
    • 1910, Octave Thanet [pseudonym; Alice French], By Inheritance, Indianapolis, I.N.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 64:
      But agriculture is the work for the niggro. It has variety. I don't believe they will be any good for the manufactures, cotton or steel. It is too monotonous.
    • 1986, Clayton Bess, Tracks, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
      So, you see, when Mr. Corbett made his wrap-up on the Niggro, there was no one but me still attending. I said to him, "Well, that sounds just bully, Mr. Corbett."
    • 2017, John Banks, W: A Novel, Greensboro, N.C.: 819 Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:
      And not just by the niggro—I understand why the niggro might hold a grudge for two hundred years, but all these phony white liberals—to be turned on by your own kith and kin like that is unforgivable.
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