different between niggerish vs niggerism

English

Etymology

nigger +? -ish

Adjective

niggerish (comparative more niggerish, superlative most niggerish)

1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Like or characteristic of a nigger.
   • 1866, The Atlantic Monthly:

     So when I say that my Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind...

   • 1886, Michael Magaul & Eli Robinson McCall, No-history Versus No-war or The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed, p. 261:

     [T]hey should specially avoid the fanatics who […] have temporarily changed a federal republic into a sort of niggerish monarchy or empire […]

   • 1958, "Talking About", Jet, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 47:

     She told him in her native Virginia mountain-area dialect: "That's what ah said. Ah don't like these niggerish places."

   • 2002, Loretta I Winters, Herman L DeBose, New faces in a changing America:

     In a voice dripping with sarcasm, Bernhard related, "Mariah's been getting a little niggerish on us... she been seeing those rap stars..."

Synonyms

• niggery

Anagrams

• gingerish

English

Etymology

nigger +? -ism

Noun

niggerism (countable and uncountable, plural niggerisms)

1. (uncountable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Political support for black people.
   • 1988, Philip M Seib, Who's in Charge?

     The spot quoted a Klan official saying, "In Alabama, we hate niggerism, Catholicism, and Judaism."

2. (countable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Something characteristic of niggers.

Anagrams

• gingerism