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Uncommon
noun
🤬
A
black
person; a person of
black
African
descent
.
🤬
A person of
black
African
descent
who
acts
in an
unapproved
manner
(whether
positive
or
negative
).
🤬
A
member
of any
typically
dark-skinned
people (now
especially
in
combinations
, e.g.
prairie nigger
,
sand nigger
).
•
In African-American Vernacular English:
An
informal
term of address
.
•
In African-American Vernacular English:
A
friend
.
•
A
term
of
abuse
,
applied
to someone of any
race
, who is seen as
lazy
,
unmotivated
,
unambitious
,
self-serving
,
unproductive
,
seeking
a
handout
, or
willingly
dependent
on the
generosity
and
charity
of others; a
mooch
.
🤬
Any of various
dark
animals
:
A
fish
, the
luderick
(Girella tricuspidata).
A
dark
brown
nymphalid
butterfly
, Orsotriaena medus, of
south Asia
,
southeast Asia
, and
Australia
.
The
larva
of the
turnip sawfly
, an
agricultural
pest
.
🤬
In British English, Cornish English & Fishing:
Any of various
dark
animals
:
A
kind of
sea cucumber
, Holothuria forskali, the
cotton
spinner
.
•
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
.
•
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.
•
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
.
•
In Film:
A
black
screen
used in
conjunction
with the
camera
to
block
light
or
produce
special
lighting
effects
.
verb
•
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.
•
To
exhaust
(soil) by
cropping
it year by year without
manure
.
🤬
To
behave
as a
stereotypical
black
person.
🤬
To
treat
as
inferior
.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
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nigger
figure
vigour
gigger
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fligger
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nigger
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niger
Latin
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