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Nig vs Nog - What's the difference?

nig | nog |

As nouns the difference between nig and nog

is that nig is nigger while nog is a wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

As a verb nog is

to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.

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

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    (vo-noun)
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  • Declension

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    Derived terms

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    nog

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
  • One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
  • (shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.
  • Verb

    (nogg)
  • to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
  • (shipbuilding) to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short for noggin.
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short for eggnog.
  • (obsolete) A kind of strong ale.
  • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
  • (AU, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.
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