| 单词 | house negro |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse Negro house Negro n. U.S. (now historical or as a term of derision) a black household slave or (later) servant. Cf. field Negro n. at field n.1 Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > black house Negro1711 house nigger1840 1711 Boston News-let. 21 May 2/2 (advt.) A Young House-Negro Wench of 19 Years of Age that speaks English to be Sold. 1771 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1919) 14 135 You will have it that my People are not well fed, it is true they do not live so well as our House negroes, But full as well as any Plantation negroes. 1811 Ann. Reg. 64/2 She was a favourite house negro in her former master's family, and had nursed one of his children. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind iii. 49 The house-negroes..considered themselves superior to white trash. 1996 New Yorker 8 Apr. 72/2 Ever since Malcolm X..the epithet ‘house Negro’ had been a staple of militant invective. 2010 Reading (Pa.) Eagle (Nexis) 22 Feb. She [sc. the abolitionist Harriet Tubman] was spirited as a youngster and was considered too clumsy and arrogant to be a ‘house Negro’, so they put her to work in the fields. < as lemmas |
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