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niggerish

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

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niggerlike

English

Etymology

nigger +? -like

Adjective

niggerlike (comparative more niggerlike, superlative most niggerlike)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Resembling or characteristic of a nigger.
    • 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter
      […] now he listens to mine host as he recounts the strange absence of the preacher, pauses and combs his long red beard with his fingers, looks distrustfully, and then says, with a quaintness that disarmed suspicion, "Niggerlike! — preacher or angel, nigger will be nigger! […]

Synonyms

  • niggerish

Anagrams

  • gingerlike

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