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Negro|ˈniːgrəʊ|
Also 7–8 negroe, 8– negro.
[a. Sp. or Pg. negro:—L. nigrum, niger black: cf. Nigro. Hence also F. nègre: see neger and nigger.]
I.
1. An individual (esp. a male) belonging to the African race of mankind, which is distinguished by a black skin, black tightly-curled hair, and a nose flatter and lips thicker and more protruding than is common amongst white Europeans. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries also applied (now somewhat less frequently because of the increasing use of the word Black) to individuals of African ancestry born in or resident in the United States or in other English-speaking countries. (Now customarily written with a capital initial.) Cf. New Negro, nigger n.
1555Eden Decades 239 They are not accustomed to eate such meates as doo the Ethiopians or Negros. 1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 149 In all Ginea the blacke people called Negros doe use for money..certayne little snayles. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvi. 450 There is amongst them an Iland of Negro's inhabited with blacke people. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative 99 His design being strangely discovered by a Negroe. 1716S. Sewall Diary 22 June, I essay'd..to prevent Indians and Negros being Rated with Horses and Hogs. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. ix. 212 His coat of mail made his skin as black as a negroe. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 120 No mean testimony to the intellectual and moral capabilities of negroes. 1864C. Geikie Life in Woods xxii. (1874) 349 As he came near, I saw he was a negro. 1876tr. O. Peschel's Races of Man 464 Narrow and more or less high skulls are prevalent among the negroes. 1906Harper's Weekly 2 June 763/2 Professor Booker T. Washington, being politely interrogated..as to whether negroes ought to be called ‘negroes’ or ‘members of the colored race’ has replied that it has long been his own practice to write and speak of members of his race as negroes, and when using the term ‘negro’ as a race designation, to employ the capital ‘N’. 1911E. C. Semple Influences Geogr. Environment ii. 38 It is generally conceded by scientists that pigment is a protective device of nature. The Negro's skin is comparatively insensitive to a sun heat that blisters a white man. 1930N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 22/5 (heading) ‘Negro’ with a capital ‘N’... Major Robert R. Moton..has written..that his people universally wish to see the word ‘Negro’ capitalized... In our ‘style book’ ‘Negro’ is now added to the list of words to be capitalized. It is not merely a typographical change; it is an act in recognition of racial self-respect. 1938F. Boas Gen. Anthropol. iii. 104 In a strict sense a race must be defined as a group of common origin and of stable type. In this sense extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary. 1965S. S. Smith Ess. Causes of Variety of Complexion & Figure p. lvii, It remains hazardous..to offer summary findings as to skeletal differences between whites and negroes. 1970R. D. Abrahams Positively Black ii. 33 By espousing the term ‘black’ for themselves, they are also arguing implicitly that ‘Negro’ is a status term imposed by whites to underline the white's sense of the place of blacks in the American system. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 84 Negro, another way of calling [a] person an Uncle Tom. 1971Black Scholar Jan. 53/2 His protagonist, a white-skinned Negro..decides to leave the black race. Ibid. Apr.–May 9 The United States of America has..deprived me and my brothers and sisters, the 30 to 60 million so-called Negroes, better known as Asiatic Black people, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 1973Black World May 37/2 Upon spotting the Afro-American, the Ghanaians shouted out, ‘Hey, Negro!’ The other..retorted angrily, ‘I'm a Black Man, not a Negro. Don't call me Negro.’
†b. to wash a Negro, to attempt an impossible task. Obs. rare.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl i. i. D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 147, I wash a Negro, Loosing both paines and cost. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 42 Therefore was he put to water dry sticks, and to wash Negros; that is,..to reform a most perverse and stubborn generation.
c. transf. in various uses (see quots.).
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 100 Also a kind of fish called Negroes or Sea-Devils, which are large and have a black scale. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 53 The out⁓ward Skin was a perfect Negro, the Bones also being as black as Jet. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VI. 432/1 A white kidney-bean..; black negroe of the same; scarlet of the same. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xvii. (1818) II. 82 The sanguine ants at length rush upon the negroes [black ants]. 1855Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 120 Negroes and Niggers, provincial names of the caterpillars of the turnip saw-fly.
d. The English spoken by American Blacks. Also in Combs. with a language name, as Negro-English, Negro-French, etc.
1704S. Knight Jrnl. (1825) 38 You speak negro to him. I'le ask him. 1808T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 79 The husband..had lived long enough in Virginia to pick up some Negro-English. 1819R. L. Mason Narr. in Pioneer West (1915) 56 Negro-French is the common language of this town. 1862‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines 132 Not to weary the reader with a long repetition of negro-English, I will tell in brief what I gleaned from an hour's conversation with the two blacks. 1884Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVI. App. 32 Such parasynetic forms as sparrer-grass for asparagus..are common enough in Negro. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. 436 As a result of European trade a number of creolized trade languages have developed along the Atlantic Coast. They are chiefly Negro-Portuguese, Negro-English, and Negro-French. 1964Language XL. 291 Sranan (also known as..Surinam Negro-English). 1971J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 9 A pidginised form of Portuguese (often referred to as Negro-Portuguese).
2. Comb. (chiefly objective) as Negro-baiting vbl. n. and ppl. a., Negro-auction, Negro-breaker, Negro-breaking, Negro-dealer, Negro-driver, Negro-driving, Negro equality, Negro-hate, Negro-holder, Negro-hunter, Negro-monger, Negro-owned adj., Negro question, Negro-rank adj., Negro slavery, Negro-stale adj., Negro-stealer, Negro-stealing, Negro-trader, Negro-whipping, Negro-white adj., Negro-worship.
1856Olmsted Slave States 31 This must not be taken as an indication that *negro auctions are not of frequent occurrence.
1949Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 24 Sept. 6 Something about *Negro-baiting in the South. 1951Koestler Age of Longing x. 183 You are a Negro-baiting, half-civilised nation.
1845F. Douglass Narr. Life F. Douglass x. 73 Mr. Covey enjoyed the most unbounded reputation for being a first-rate overseer and *negro-breaker.
1855― My Bondage & my Freedom xv. 216 His proficiency in the art of *negro breaking.
1799Hull Advertiser 7 Sept. 4/1 He took him to one of the *negro-dealers, who..advanced eighty pounds. 1856Olmsted Slave States 30 The negro-dealers had confidential servants always in attendance.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 67, I have known a *negro-driver, from Jamaica, pay..sixty-five guineas. 1781J. Moore View Soc. It. (1795) II. 3 The unrelenting frown of a negro-driver. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. (1858) I. xvi. 55 These must be old negro-drivers.
1826Scott Diary in Lockhart (1839) VIII. 223 The true *negro-driving principle of self-interest.
1856Illinois State Register (Springfield) 26 June 3/3 The cry for *negro equality is on their lips. 1905N. Davis Northerner 52 You think I might be nice to Mr. Falls, negro equality and all?
1862N.Y. Tribune 21 Apr., Southern *negro-hate, being based on Slavery, is kept within bounds; that of the North, being mainly a hypocrisy or imitation, is affected & exaggerated to caricature.
1780J. Jones Lett. (1889) 47 The *negro holders in general already clamour against the project. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 90 The Deputies..of the Negro-holders, of the Sugar-growers [etc.].
1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. (1858) I. xvi. 55 We are to be overwhelmed with an avalanche of *negro-hunters.
1741T. Jones Let. 1 July in Colonial Rec. Georgia (1906) IV. 678 This exposes them to the Envy and Hatred of our *Negro-Mongers.
1879Sir G. Campbell White & Black 154 The *negro-owned lands are not now much increasing.
1832Reg. Deb. Congress U.S. 2 Apr. 2348 The South must be threatened with the *negro question. 1949Time 31 Oct. 84/3 The South gradually transformed ‘the Negro-question’ into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life.
1942*Negro-rank [see Negro-stale adj. below].
1831M. Holley Texas (1833) 87 The question of *negro slavery..is one of great importance.
1942W. Faulkner Go Down, Moses 199 It all seemed to stand there about them, intact and complete and visible in the drafty, damp, heatless, *negro-stale negro-rank sorry room.
1827Western Monthly Rev. I. 69 It will be the refuge of *Negro-stealers and the Elysium of rogues.
1819Niles' Reg. XVI. 160/1 Sentence of death has been pronounced on a fellow in North Carolina, for *negro stealing.
1732in Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Coll. (1923) XVI. 108, 4 *Negro Traders then on board. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age vii. 78 The Hawkins hearts had been torn to see Uncle Dan'l and his wife pass from the auction-block into the hands of a negro trader.
1845Youatt Dog v. 113 You..find that your dogs do not want this unmerciful *negro-whipping.
1956J. C. Furnas Goodbye to Uncle Tom ii. 70 Our town then had the largest *Negro–white ratio in the North. 1961Times 2 Dec. 11/5 Eight Negroes, mostly of mixed Negro–white descent.
1861Illustr. Lond. News 17 Aug. 152/2 The damnable heresy of ‘*negro-worship’.
b. Negro's head, the Ivory Palm.
1670Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) 3 Descended immediately from the Genius of the Soyls.., and (as the Negros-Heads in the Barbados) even without Seeds. 1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 138 The natives of Columbia call it Tagua, or Cabeza de Negro (Negro's head), in allusion, we presume, to the figure of the nut.
†c. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Negroes Heads, brown loaves delivered to the ships in ordinary.
II. attrib. (passing into adj.).
3. With names of persons: Belonging to the race of Negroes; black-skinned. Also Negro minstrel (see quots. 1864 and 1871).
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Mens Wits 316 A negro woman. 1625Purchas Pilgrims II. 978, I departed..with two Negro Boyes that I had. 1665Hooke Microgr. 207 Negro Women..bringing forth..tawny hided Mulattos. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2177/4 A black Negro Man about 30 years of age. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 37, I bought me a Negro Slave. 1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 145 A negroe man..attacked a negroe wench..and would have killed a negroe boy. 1799Home in Phil. Trans. LXXXIX. 163 The Negro women of the Mandingo and Ibbo nations. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 142 Does it never enter the heads of negro husbands and fathers to retaliate? 1855C. E. De Long in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1929) VIII. 346 A negro minstrel performance at home went to it and took some girls. 1858E. Twining Short Lect. Plants i. 10 The negro women working in the hot cotton plantations. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 699/1 In most cases the members of the negro minstrel troupes are only negroes in name, with faces and hands blackened. 1871Schele de Vere Americanisms 116 The Negro-minstrel is the artist who blackens his face, adopts the black man's manner and instrument, and recites his field and plantation songs. 1884Century Mag. Mar. 688/1 At that time the negro-minstrel was not a black-faced singer of sentimental songs but a man who sang and jumped Jim Crow..and other genuine plantation songs. 1915Scribner's Mag. June 754 Time was when the Negro-minstrels held possession of three or four theatres in the single city of New York. 1970Oxf. Compan. Mus. (ed. 10) 675/1 Towards the end of the nineteenth century Negro Minstrels were a feature of every considerable British coast resort.
b. transf. of insects.
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xvii. (1818) II. 85 Thirty of the rufescent ants..with the addition of several negro pupæ. 1864Athenæum 10 Dec. 788 A remarkable negro variety of Abraxas grossulariata.
4. Consisting or composed of Negroes.
1652Tatham in Brome's Joviall Crew B.'s Wks. 1873 III. 348 Ingratefull Negro-kinde. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 350 The Pelagian Negro races have been supposed to reach eastward as far as..the Fejee Islands. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1353/2 The languages of the Negro nations. 1879Froude Cæsar iv. 33 The Negro tribes have never extended north of the Sahara.
5. Inhabited or occupied by Negroes.
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton v. (1840) 88 We met with a little negro town. 1734New York Gaz. 18–25 Mar. 1/1 Thomas L―d keeps at some Miles distance from his dwelling House, Negro-Quarters (as they are called). 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 628 The European nations..[have] encouraged in the Negroe countries, wars, rapine,..and murder. 1813E. Gerry Jr. Diary 26 June (1927) 144 Mr. Carrol has 1000 slaves, whose huts, called negro quarters, constitute a small town around the mansion. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 62 The slaves of the Arabs are mostly from Abyssinia and the Negro countries. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1352/2 Here the true Negro area..is exceedingly small. 1913W. P. Eaton Barn Doors & Byways 167 The old foundation stones show that the house was once one hundred and ten feet long, with a gigantic kitchen and outstanding negro quarters.
6. Of or belonging to, connected with, characteristic of, etc., a Negro or Negroes. Spec. of any art form: associated with or characteristic of Negroes. Of clothes, fabrics, etc.: designed to be worn or used by Negroes.
1661Hickeringill Jamaica 31 The inclosed shell [of the cocoa-nut], whose Negro-skull is not easily broke. 1732South Carolina Gaz. 1 Apr., He had on..blue Negro Boots. Ibid. 30 Sept. 4/2 Just imported, white and blue Negro Cloth. 1740W. Seward Jrnl. 2 Subscriptions for a Negroe School in Pensilvania. 1769, etc. Negro cloth, see sense 7]. 1786Maryland Jrnl. 26 Sept., Fine and coarse broadcloths; coatings; Negro cottons. a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 64 The hermitage-like appearance of the negro buildings. Ibid. 330 To be found in almost every negro garden throughout the island. 1818Amer. Beacon (Norfolk, Va.) 19 Dec. 1/4 Negro cotton. 10 Bales just received. 1841Picayune (New Orleans) 3 Mar. 3 Negro Blankets, in store and for sale. 1844J. Cowell 30 Yrs. among Players 66 [Blakeley] was the first to introduce negro singing on the American stage. 1847F. A. Kemble Let. Dec. in Rec. Later Life (1882) III. 279 Do you remember that delightful Negro song, the ‘Invitation to Hayti’? 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1352/2 The true Negro type of conformation. Ibid., The proper Negro character. 1855A. M. Murray Lett. (1856) 395 This morning we have had some negro music. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 699/1 The sentiment of..these negro melodies. Ibid., This negro minstrelsy now comprehends a large variety of songs. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 32 Some of the larger square-sterned negro-boats are also thus designated. 1912Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 23/1 Negro songs have always been popular among us, and deservedly so. 1925W. S. Braithwaite in A. Locke New Negro 39 It was the stirring year of 1917 that heard the first real masterful accent in Negro poetry. 1936A. Locke Negro & his Mus. i. 1 Negro music is the closest approach America has to a folk music, and so Negro music is almost as important for the musical culture of America as it is for the spiritual life of the Negro. Ibid. ii. 15 The Negro dance has the feature, characteristic of Russian, Polish and other Slavic folk-dances, of sudden changes of the pace and daring climaxes of tempo. 1960A. E. Keep tr. Leuzinger's Afr. (1962) i. i. 13 Negro art attracts and enthrals us by its emotional vigour and clarity of form. Ibid. vi. 52 Is negro art primitive? No—if the word ‘primitive’ is understood to mean something crude, barbaric and contemptible. Yes—if by ‘primitive’ we mean something honourable, as the term is applied, for instance, to the Fauvists in European painting. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 43/2 The rock 'n roll and Negro-jazz rhythms of his American cycle of poems. 1970R. D. Abrahams Positively Black ii. 51 Distrust of even one's closest friends is a constant theme of Negro life and Negro fictions.
7. In special uses, as Negro ant, a blackish ant; Negro bat, a European and Asiatic bat (Vesperugo maurus) of a black or sooty-brown colour; Negro cachexy (see quot.); Negro cloth, cloth intended to be worn by negroes; Negro coffee, the seeds of Cassia occidentalis; Negro corn (see quot.); Negro dog, a dog used in hunting runaway Negro slaves; Negro felt (cf. Negro cloth); Negro fish, fly, fowl (see quots.); Negro lethargy (see lethargy n. 1); Negro monkey, a black monkey of the Malay Peninsula, Java, etc. (Semnopithecus maurus), also called the Negro langur; Negro oil (see quot.); Negro peach (see peach n.1 3 a); Negro pepper (see pepper n. 3); Negro pot (?); Negro Renaissance (see quot. 1973); Negro spiritual, an American Negro religious song; Negro State, any of the Southern States of America in which slavery was legal; Negro tamarin, a tamarin monkey (Midas ursulas) of the lower Amazon; Negro yam, the West India yam, Dioscorea sativa (also called Negro-country yam).
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xvii. (1818) II. 97, I observed the little *negro ant (F. fusca) engaged in the same employment upon an elder.
1855Ogilvie Suppl., *Negro-cachexy, a propensity for eating dirt, peculiar to the natives of the West Indies and Africa.
1769Boston Chron. 7–10 Aug. 250/2 *Negro cloth, commonly called white and coloured plains. 1856Olmsted Slave States 27 Many..wore clothing of coarse gray ‘negro-cloth’, that appeared as if made by contract.
1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 330 *Negro Coffee, L'herbe puante. Fedigose seeds of Tette.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Negro-corn, a West Indian name for the Turkish millet or dhurra.
1856Olmsted Slave States 161, I have since seen a pack of *negro-dogs, chained in couples... They were all of a breed, and in appearance between a Scotch stag-hound and a fox-hound. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. (1858) I. xvi. 55 Sending for packs of negro dogs from New Orleans.
1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 763 Wool felts..have now materially decreased, the article termed ‘*negro felts’ being almost extinct.
1734Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 316 Perca marina puncticulata. The *Negro Fish.
1855Ogilvie Suppl., *Negro fly, the Psila rosæ, a dipterous insect, so named from its shining black colour. It is also called the carrot-fly.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 270/1 The Silk or *Negro-fowl of the Cape de Verd Islands (Gallus Morio, Temminck). 1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1855) 81 The ‘silky’ and ‘negro’ fowls,..with skin, combs, and bones which are black.
1888Syd. Soc. Lex., *Negro lethargy. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xvi. 251 Negro lethargy, or the sleeping sickness of the Congo.
1830Edinb. Encycl. XIII. 401/1 *Negro Monkey. Long-tailed, blackish, with..blackish beard.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., *Negro-oil, a name by which the palma of botanists is sometimes called.
1849Craig s.v., *Negro or Ethiopean pepper, the plant Unona æthiopica.
a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 307 They boiled a *negro-pot for him, but he was too ill to swallow a morsel.
1925A. Locke New Negro p. xi, We speak of the offerings of this book..as culled from the first fruits of the *Negro Renaissance. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) x. 103 The Negro poets who won such a large audience for their work, good, bad, and indifferent, in the intense days of the so-called Negro Renaissance. 1964J. H. Clarke Harlem 16 The stock market collapse of 1929 marked..the end of the period known as the Negro Renaissance. 1973Baskin & Runes Dict. Black Culture 324 Negro Renaissance, a creative outpouring in art, music, and literature in the 1920's, giving expression to the discontent of the Negro... Writers of the twenties displayed considerable talent..in developing Negro themes in a highly personal way.
1867Atlantic Monthly June 685/1, I had for many years heard of this class of songs under the name of ‘*Negro Spirituals’. 1928Observer 22 July 21/1 As important..is their singing of negro spirituals and ‘work songs’. 1949Oregonian (Portland) 10 Aug. 8/4 He found time to write books on his hobbies, on alligators and on Negro spirituals. 1970Oxf. Compan. Mus. (ed. 10) 1064/2 The words of Negro spirituals are for the most part adaptations of passages from the Bible.
1780in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1877) XIII. 220 You did not carry home contemptible Ideas enough of the *negro States or of this great Braggadocio. 1809Deb. Congress U.S. 20 Jan. (1853) 1152 The Potomac the boundary—the Negro states by themselves!
1881Proc. Zool. Soc. 1003 *Negro Tamarins. 1896H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 149 In Para, the Negro Tamarin is often seen in a tame state.
1696H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum Jamaica 219 *Negro Country Yam. 1707― Voy. Jamaica I. 140 Negro Country Yams. This has a great Root a Foot broad... They being cut into pieces and boiled or rosted are eaten by Negros, Slaves, or Europeans, instead of Bread. 1756P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 359 The Negro Yam... The Yam. Both these plants are cultivated for food, the roots, which grow very large, being mealy and easy of digestion. 1814J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis II. 308 This [sc. Dioscorea sativa] is commonly called negro yam. 1864A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 789/2 Yams, Negro country: Dioscorea alata. 1892Syd. Soc. Lex., *Negro yam. 1953Caribbean Q. II. iv. 32 Dioscorea sativa the so-called negro-yam, may have been indigenous, for it..sometimes grows wild; but more probably the wild specimens were originally escapes from cultivation. 1971Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 3 Nov. 34/3 (Advt.), Negro yams, yellow yams, sweet potatoes.
Hence ˈNegrocide, the killing of a Negro. ˈNegrodom, the region or community of Negroes. ˈNegrofy v. trans., to make into, or as black as, a Negro. ˈNegrohood, Negro race or stock. ˈNegroish a., characteristic of the Negro. ˈNegroite, a Negrophil. ˈNegroized a., given over to the Negroes. Neˈgrolatry, excessive admiration of the Negro. ˈNegrolet, ˈNegroling, a little Negro. Negroˈmania, extravagant Negrophilism; hence Negroˈmaniac.
1852Mundy Antipodes v. (1855) 109 It must have been considered a case of justifiable *negrocide.
1847Congress. Globe 13 Feb. App. 376/1 Our measures have given all that wide region to the empire of *negrodom. 1862Hawthorne in Bridge Pers. Recollect. (1893) 173, I ought to thank you for a shaded map of negrodom, which you sent me a little while ago. 1864Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 248 All Negrodom has put on its wonderful attire of finery. 1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 31/2 Neither the top nor the bottom of Negrodom. Ibid. 32/1 A flight away from Negrodom.
a1790B. Franklin Autobiogr. in Writings (1905) I. 391 Finding he was likely to be *negrofied himself, he..grew tir'd of the contest. 1799Southey Nondescripts iii, If no kindly cloud will parasol me,..I shall be negrofied.
1863Russell Diary North & S. I. 190 The small settlement of *negro-hood, which is separated from our house by a wooden palisade.
1789J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 65 The children, by being brought up, and constantly associating with the negroes..contract a *negroish kind of accent and dialect. 1861Temple Bar II. 201 The sentimental songs had nothing peculiarly negroish about them.
1851J. Campbell Negromania 543 The *Negroites have been ignominiously driven from their strongholds.
1888Voice (N.Y.) 23 Aug., The only party that stands between the people and a *negroized government.
1862Russell in Times 29 Jan., The Conservative masses, which lie between *negrolatry or niggerworship and Secession.
1873Leland Egypt. Sketch Bk. 230 There came up a small jet-black *negrolet, eight years of age.
1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 71 O my darling! O my *negroling!
1851J. Campbell (title) *Negro-mania.
1864R. F. Burton Dahome II. 180, I foresee the..hard compulsory labour which the *negro⁓maniac will have brought upon his African protégé. |