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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of nigger.

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  • noun dated, 19th century Negro; nigger.

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  • ...eyes like a frightened horfe's

    of the neger, whites uplifted.

    - Peter Reading, Hardfhip Aboard American Sloop The Peggy, 1765, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981

    June 28, 2008