| 释义 |
nigra U.S.|ˈnɪgrə|
Also nigrah |ˈnɪgrɑː|.
[f. Negro.]
Variant form of ‘Negro’, used principally in the Southern States. Cf. nigga.
1944Amer. Speech XIX. 166 In the South it is commonly heard as nigrah, and not only from white lips. Indeed nigrah is also used by Northern Negroes, including some of the most eminent. 1959New Statesman 6 June 800/1 In the autumn of 1956 I asked a young plantation owner in Mississippi if he had noticed any change in his relations with Negro employees since the Supreme Court rulings against segregation. ‘Well,’ he said slowly, ‘I guess you can say the nigra ain't loyal any more.’ 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 354/2 Niggra = nigger. A pronunciation used by Southerners of Southern breeding and ancestry. Conjuring up the period of Negro slavery, the pronunciation is even more derog. than ‘nigger’. 1965L. H. Whitten Progeny of Adder (1966) 69 The guy has some kind of funny accent, it ain't Jewish or Italian and it ain't Nigra or Southern. 1968Guardian 25 Oct. 2/3 We know our niggras and we love them. 1969P. Cross in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 654/2 They had the niggras on their plantation. 1969F. Richards Risky Way to Kill (1970) xi. 140 ‘Pretty little thing, as nigras go, Mrs. Prender said.’ ‘‘Nigras’? Like that, Henderson?’ ‘Way it sounded to me.’ ‘It's a Southern variant,’ Heimrich said. ‘Between ‘nigger’, which they're beginning—some of them are beginning—not to use so much and ‘Negro’, which a lot of them can't get used to.’ 1973L. Heren Growing up Poor in London v. 109, I was with Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1961 freedom ride, and the church in which he preached in Montgomery, Alabama, was attacked. This led to a stopover of three or four days, during which several well-meaning whites, in spite of all the evidence, sought to persuade me that their niggers—or rather, nigras—were happy, well loved, and free to do whatever they wanted. |