ziggaboo

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English

Noun

ziggaboo (plural ziggaboos)

  1. (ethnic slur, derogatory, African-American Vernacular) A nigger, negro; synonym of jigaboo.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 148:
      Right now she got money enough in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and give ’em away.”

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