Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
nigger .
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- noun dated, 19th century
Negro ;nigger .
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Examples
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From here he could see ahead,and down there in the middle of the road stood the widow waving hershawl as a banner neger ficken of triumph, though she could only guess at results.
balance A. Bennett 2006
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In Ovid it often has the sense 'poetic feeling', as at xii 16 'pectus habere neger'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Tall, lithe, and graceful, he was so extremely dark that his intimates called him "der neger" -- "the negro."
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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Tall, lithe, and graceful, he was so extremely dark that his intimates called him "der neger" -- "the negro."
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3 Lyndon Orr
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One woman held up her little naked black child to me, grinning from ear to ear, "Look, Massa, look here! him nice lilly neger for Massa!"
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Three of his favorites, chimist for chemist, neger for negro and zeber for zebra, are incidentally interesting as showing changes in American pronunciation.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster Henry Louis 1921
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He abandoned zeber in 1828, but remained faithful to chimist and neger to the last.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster Henry Louis 1921
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Mr. Cotton Mather came to Mr. Wilkins's shop, and there talked very sharply against me as if I had used his father worse than a neger; spake so loud that people in the street might hear him ....
The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887
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We learn from one of his letters that John Winthrop, Jr., had a negro (presumably a slave) at Paquanet, for he says that a mad cow there "had almost spoiled the neger & made him ferfull to tend the rest of the cattell."
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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The husband of the woman told me that his wife's master frequently boasted that a neger could not beat his time; I told him that if he would perform the part I had given him to do, by the assistance of the Lord, I would beat his time, though a neger, according to his sense of the word.
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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