different between neg vs nig

English

Etymology

Clipping of negative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

neg (plural negs)

1. (debating) Clipping of negative.

Antonyms

• aff

Adjective

neg (not comparable)

1. (LGBT, public health) HIV negative

Antonyms

• poz

Verb

neg (third-person singular simple present negs, present participle negging, simple past and past participle negged)

1. (Britain slang) To annoy or irritate deliberately. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (transitive, seduction community) To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.
3. (nonstandard, Internet slang, transitive) To leave negative feedback in a reputation tracking system.

   I negged the seller who didn't send me the widget I paid for.

Noun

neg (plural negs)

1. (seduction community) An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of someone in order to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.

Anagrams

• -gen, ENG, Eng., GEN, Gen, Gen., eng, gen, gen.

Danish

Noun

neg n (singular definite neget, plural indefinite neg)

1. sheaf (bundle of grain or straw)

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin naevus. Compare the similar sound shift in fagure.

Noun

neg m (plural negi)

1. wart
2. verruca

Synonyms

• veruc?

See also

• negel
• neghin?
• n?gar?

Welsh

Numeral

neg

1. Nasal mutation of deg (“(cardinal) ten”).

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of niggard. Unrelated to nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) niggard

Etymology 2

Clipping of nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger
   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

Verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur) to behave as a stereotypical black person

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, ing

Volapük

Noun

nig (nominative plural nigs)

1. ink

Declension

Derived terms

• nigiär

Yapese

Noun

nig

1. fish