| 词汇 | nigger |
| 释义 | nigger noun 1 a black person. When used by white speakers, highly offensive; used by black speakers, especially the young, with increasing frequency UK, 1574. 2 an Australian Aboriginal. Racially offensive AUSTRALIA, 1845. 3 a Maori NEW ZEALAND, 1858. 4 a friend. The word having been reclaimed by the black population, usage in the racially-mixed community of St Pauls, Bristol, resulted, in 2003, in white youths emulating black peers and calling their friends, of any skin-colour, 'nigger' UK, 2003. 5 in the television and film industries, a screen on a stand used to achieve lighting effects UK, 1960.► another push and you'd have been a niggerused insultingly as a slur on the morals of the subject's mother, implying that she would have sex with anyone of any race UK, 1961 Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers. house niggerhighly offensive A disparaging term that likens a black person to a subservient slave, i.e., one who works in the house of the slavemaster. nigger in the woodpileAn outdated and highly offensive phrase that was used to describe something suspicious. |
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