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Nig vs Ing - What's the difference?

nig | ing |

As a noun nig

is (offensive|racial slur) nigger.

As a proper noun ing is

shortened from inga, rare by itself but a popular first part of twentieth century hyphenated names like ing-britt and ing-marie.

nig

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (offensive, racial slur) nigger
  • * 1959 , Don Robertson, The three days
  • He always thought one step ahead of the nigs .
  • * 1961 , Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War
  • In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.
  • * 1967 , Frank Hercules, I want a black doll
  • What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?

    Anagrams

    * English clippings ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • ink
  • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    Derived terms

    *

    ing

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A water meadow
  • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

    Etymology 2

    : From Pitman em'' and ''en , which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ing.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the letter for the ng sound in Pitman shorthand.
  • Anagrams

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