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nigger

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA /ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/

Noun

nigger noun

  1. (see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.
  2. (see usage notes) A member of another typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations, e.g. prairie nigger, sand nigger).
  3. An informal term of address.
  4. A friend.

Verb

nigger verb

  1. 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.
  2. To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
  3. To behave as a stereotypical black person.
  4. To treat as inferior.

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