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nigger
noun- a black person UK, 1574
When used by white speakers, highly offensive; used by black speakers, especially the young, with increasing frequency. - We could call ourselves nigger all we wanted, but when the white folks did it we wanted to fight. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 76, 1945
- “You got a nigger wife?” she shouted. Fine did not answer. “Are you a Jew?” she screamed. “Yes,” Fine answered. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 9, 10 September 1957
- Somewhere in the middle of Missouri, for the first time, this sailor, who never called a woman a woman if he could call her a cunt, and a Negro a nigger (I’d advertised for him in the New York Times), finally boiled over. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 175, 1961
- It’s simply that you know when whoever’s using it uses it, what he really means is Nigger. It’s like the subtle double meaning of the word pussy, and it has the same restriction. I’m all for making Nigger an acceptable social word. — Clarence Cooper Jr., Black, p. 98, 1963
- It was real wrong to call somebody a nigger in front of a paddy boy. That’s the way they felt. It made me feel a little bad myself. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 137, 1965
- The nigger is not a human being. He is somehwere between the white man and the ape. We don’t believe in tolerance. We don’t believe in getting along with our enemy and the nigger is our enemy. (Quoting KKK leader J. B. Stoner of Atlanta, Georgia). — San Francisco Chronicle, This World, p. 6, 18 July 1965
- You want to get a glimpse of what it feels like to be a nigger? Let your hair grow long. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 71, 1968
- Aunt Sadie, long hair is our black skin. Long hair turns white middle-class youth into niggers. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 94, 1970
- It’s just a word, anyway. Nigger, I mean. It’s just a word that some dumb-ass plantation owner made up one time by accident when he tried to pronounce nee-grow. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 3, 1972
- It got so that the women’s movement called women the “niggers” of our time and confused gender with class. — Mort Sahl, Heartland, p. 50, 1976
- “I got nothing against blacks. It’s niggers I don’t like.” “But don’t you see, Charlie? Just using that word makes you prejudiced.” “Bullshit. The whole business is a lot more complicated than you give it credit for, Diane.” — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 153, 1979
- Forrest doesn’t know what a nigger is. Them’s niggers. A nigger, Forrest, is somebody you don’t want to be. — Forrest Gump, 1992
- “Never underestimate these fucking niggers,” his [police] superior cautioned. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 3, 1994
- an Australian Aboriginal AUSTRALIA, 1845
Racially offensive. - “It’s nigger’s country, ain’t it?” “Wouldn’t feed a bloody rabbit,” agreed someone. — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 57, 1941
- Maybe you’re right, but they say Abos spoil ‘em and a horse never likes anyone who doesn’t smell nigger. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 194, 1962
- a Maori NEW ZEALAND, 1858
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 91, 1999
- a friend UK, 2003
The word having been reclaimed by the black population, usage in the racially-mixed community of St Pauls, Bristol, resulted, in 2003, in white youths emulating black peers and calling their friends, of any skin-colour, “nigger”. Reported by a greatly encouraged youth worker. - in the television and film industries, a screen on a stand used to achieve lighting effects UK
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 89, 1960
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