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Meaning
Noun
đ¤Ź
A
black
person; a person of
black
African descent.
A person of
black
African
descent
who
behaves
badly
or
unconventionally
(whether the
speaker
approves
or disapproves).
đ¤Ź
A
member
of any
typically
dark-skinned
people (now especially in
combinations
like
prairie nigger
or
sand
nigger
).
â
In African-American Vernacular English:
A
friend
,
particularly
a
fellow
black
person (often as an
informal
term
of address).
â
In African-American Vernacular English:
A person of any kind (particularly as a
term
of abuse).
đ¤Ź
Any of various
dark
animals:
Any
member
of
species
Girella tricuspidata (luderick).
A
dark
brown
nymphalid
butterfly
, Orsotriaena medus, of
south
Asia,
southeast
Asia, and Australia.
The
larva
of the
turnip sawfly
, an
agricultural
pest.
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In British English, Cornish English & Fishing:
Any of various
dark
animals:
A
kind of
sea cucumber
, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.
â
An
impurity
in the
covering
of an
electrical
conductor
which
serves
to make a
partial
short circuit
, and thus becomes
sufficiently
heated
to burn
and
destroy
the insulation.
â
A strong iron-bound
timber
with
sharp
teeth
or
spikes
protruding
from its front
face
,
forming
part of the
machinery
of a
sawmill
, and used in
canting
logs
, etc.
â
In American English:
A steam-capstan on some Mississippi
river
boats
, used to
haul
the
boat
over
bars
and
snags
by a
rope
fastened
to a
tree
on the bank.
â
In Film:
A
black
screen
used
in conjunction with
the
camera
to
block
light
or
produce
special
lighting
effects.
Verb
â
To
clear
land
by
laying
light
pieces
of round
timber
across the
trunks
of the
trees
and
setting fire
to them
at the point of
contact
, by which means the
trees
are
slowly
burned
through.
â
To
exhaust
(soil) by
cropping
it year by year without manure.
đ¤Ź
To
perform
in blackface.
đ¤Ź
To
behave
as a
stereotypical
black
person.
đ¤Ź
To
treat
as inferior.
Name
đ¤Ź
A
given name
for a
black
pet.
â ď¸
Niger (country).
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
nigger
English
niger
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
â ď¸
Synonyms words may be slurs, vulgar, offensive, or derogatory
Related
â ď¸
Related words may be slurs, vulgar, offensive, or derogatory
Rhymes
Rigor
Digger
Jigger
Rigger
Rigour
Nigger
Figure
Vigour
Gigger
Tigger
Whigger
Fligger
Trigger
Refigure
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