different between niggery vs niggerish

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

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