Niggerish vs Niggerlike - What's the difference?

Niggerlike is a synonym of niggerish.

is that niggerish is like or characteristic of a nigger while niggerlike is resembling or characteristic of a nigger.

(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..."

* niggery

(en adjective)

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Resembling or characteristic of a nigger.

* 1855 , Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter

* niggerish