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niggerish | niggerism |

As an adjective niggerish

is like or characteristic of a nigger.

As a noun niggerism is

political support for black people.

niggerish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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
  • *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

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    niggerism

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Political support for black people.
  • * 1976 , William Fletcher Thompson, The History of Wisconsin
  • Their black support confirmed the charge of "niggerism " and helped the Democrats turn the widespread Negrophobia to their account.
  • * 1988 , Philip M Seib, Who's in Charge?
  • The spot quoted a Klan official saying, "In Alabama, we hate niggerism , Catholicism, and Judaism."
  • (countable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Something characteristic of niggers.
  • * 1970 , Claude McKay, Banjo
  • He loved their tricks of language, loved to pick up and feel and taste new words from their rich reservoir of niggerisms .
  • * 1975 , Daniel J Leab, From Sambo to Superspade: the Black experience in motion pictures
  • But as it was, not until the 1940s did the industry begin to depart significantly from the stereotypes with their "insulting niggerisms "...

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