different between niggery vs figgery

English

nigger +? -y

niggery (comparative more niggery, superlative most niggery)

(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.

fig +? -ery

figgery (plural figgeries)

fig +? -ery, in colloquial sense of "figure".

figgery

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