different between niggerly vs niggery

English

Etymology

nigger +? -ly

Adjective

niggerly (comparative more niggerly, superlative most niggerly)

1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Niggerlike.
   • 1885, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society (volume 47, page 289)

     a nice, clean, tidy, healthy little city, with a native population neither so thoroughly niggerly, nude and nidorous as it was when my lines were cast there.

   • 1988, Adrienne Kennedy, Adrienne Kennedy in One Act (page 10)

     He was a wild black beast who raped my mother. […] Ever since I can remember he's been in a nigger pose of agony. He is the wilderness. He speaks niggerly groveling about wanting to touch me with his black hand.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with the similar-sounding niggardly (“miserly, stingy”).

Anagrams

• gingerly

English

Etymology

nigger +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n????i/

Adjective

niggery (comparative more niggery, superlative most niggery)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.
   • 2004, Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality, page 499

     […] hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.

   • 2009, Smith, Mark M, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, page 138

     I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.

Anagrams

• gingery, greying