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▪ I. † ˈniggery, n. Obs. rare.
[ad. Du. negerij; cf. negery.]
An administrative division of the Dutch East Indies.
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. 201/2 The subordinate residents have from six to ten niggeries, or districts, under their charge. Ibid. 203/1 These..niggeries are likewise called Regencies.
▪ II. ˈniggery, a.
[f. nigger n. + -y1.]
Of or belonging to, characteristic of, Negroes.
1855‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, What he Says xxiii 204 Coffee, which I sweeten with niggery brown sugar. 1862New York Tribune May (Cent.), The dialect of the entire population is essentially and unmistakably niggery. 1881M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls II. 132, I wish you had small screwed-up eyes, and a niggery mouth. 1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) iv. ii. 241 The long, clean niggery legs. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind 427 The faint niggery smell which crept from the cabin increased her nausea. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1943) i. iii. 43 Portia had a certain kind of niggery craziness, but she was O.K. |