Niggerish vs Niggerism - What's the difference?
niggerish | niggerism |
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Like or characteristic of a nigger.
* 1866 , The Atlantic Monthly :
* 1886 , Michael Magaul & Eli Robinson McCall, No-history Versus No-war or The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed ,
*:[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 :
(uncountable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Political support for black people.
* 1976 , William Fletcher Thompson, The History of Wisconsin
* 1988 , Philip M Seib, Who's in Charge?
(countable, dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Something characteristic of niggers.
* 1970 , Claude McKay, Banjo
* 1975 , Daniel J Leab, From Sambo to Superspade: the Black experience in motion pictures
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)- So when I say that my Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind...
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- In a voice dripping with sarcasm, Bernhard related, "Mariah's been getting a little niggerish on us... she been seeing those rap stars..."
Synonyms
* niggeryAnagrams
*niggerism
English
Noun
- Their black support confirmed the charge of "niggerism " and helped the Democrats turn the widespread Negrophobia to their account.
- The spot quoted a Klan official saying, "In Alabama, we hate niggerism , Catholicism, and Judaism."
- He loved their tricks of language, loved to pick up and feel and taste new words from their rich reservoir of niggerisms .
- But as it was, not until the 1940s did the industry begin to depart significantly from the stereotypes with their "insulting niggerisms "...