Niggery vs Niggerish - What's the difference?
niggery | niggerish | Synonyms |
(derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.
* 1936 , Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
* 2004 , Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality ,
* 2009 , Smith, Mark M, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses ,
(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 :
Niggery is a synonym of niggerish.
As adjectives the difference between niggery and niggerish
is that niggery is (derogatory|ethnic slur|offensive) of or like a nigger while niggerish is (derogatory|offensive|ethnic slur) like or characteristic of a nigger.niggery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She remembered the hot sun, the soft red earth under her sick head, the niggery smell of the cabin behind the ruins of Twelve Oaks, remembered the refrain her heart had beaten
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- ...hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.
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- I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.
niggerish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- So when I say that my Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind...
p. 261:
- In a voice dripping with sarcasm, Bernhard related, "Mariah's been getting a little niggerish on us... she been seeing those rap stars..."