单词 | niggerish |
释义 | niggerishadj. Chiefly U.S. colloquial (usually derogatory or offensive). Relating to, characteristic of, resembling, or suggestive of a black person or black people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to Moresco?1551 blacka1652 Negro1653 negroish1746 niggerish1825 darkie1839 dinge1848 niggery1855 Negrotic1863 negritic1870 Nigritic1889 melanoderm1926 soul1960 Nubian1971 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 67 Ye great niggerish lookin', wap-sided haw. 1866 Atlantic Monthly July 79/2 When I say ‘colored’, I mean one thing, respectfully; and when I say ‘niggerish’, I mean another, disgustedly. 1866 Atlantic Monthly July 79/2 My Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind. 1943 Z. N. Hurston Let. 11 Feb. in Life in Lett. (2002) 479 I let her Montagu-Burghley me around a bit, then I just turned right niggerish and let her figger that out the best way she could. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 124 Little effort seems to be made to conceal a way of speaking that sounds to many Northerners..somewhat niggerish. 2000 Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. [He] renamed the character Reggie Hammond, deeming ‘Willie Biggs’ too ‘niggerish’. Derivatives ˈniggerishness n. ΚΠ 1970 K. Millett Sexual Politics iii. viii. 354 They accomplish this by ridicule and exaggeration, the ‘niggerishness’ of their boot-blacking make-up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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