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English
Noun
spiggoty (plural spiggoties)
- (US, ethnic slur) Synonym of spic (“Latino, Latin American; Italian”)
- 1914, The Black Cat (volume 20, page 36)
- He deserted, and for the sake of a girl, a spiggoty girl?
1919 [1918], Jack London, The Red One, London: Mills and Boon:You make the mistake of all Gringos in thinking a Mexican is a white man. He ain’t. None of them ain’t—Greasers, Spiggoties, Latin-Americans and all the rest of the cattle.
1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.