† niggerlingn.
Obsolete. rare.
A small black person or child.
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niggerkin1853
negroling1856
negrolet1873
1842 T. Hood Black Job viii All the little Niggerlings emerge As lily white as mussels.
a1845 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 349 ‘Oh, see!’ quoth he, ‘Those Niggerlings three, Who have just got emancipation!’
1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 176 Behind the little blonde German ‘Mädels’ three jet black niggerlings rolled over each other like pointer-pups.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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