Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
Wiktionary
- n. offensive, slang, dated A black person
- n. offensive, slang, dated Any dark-skinned person (frequently an Arab or Middle Eastern person).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. vulgar and offensive A negro, especially an African-American; -- an offensive term usually intended as an ethnic slur.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Not the Irish one, not the ginger one, not the one who was supposed to have called a bathroom attendant a "jigaboo" and not the completely nondescript one – Sarah Harding is the blonde one who seems to be contractually obliged to appear in a bra in at least one tabloid newspaper every day.”
“It's about doing the right thing and somebody not being able to call you a "jigaboo" or a "wannabe".”
“The student recalls a student calling President Obama a "jigaboo".”
“Miss Amogbokpa, a black law student, claimed Cole had called her a "jigaboo" and a "---- ing black bitch".”
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“I have a little trouble getting past the attack by Cheryl Cole on a "jigaboo" toilet attendant though.”
“It is an astonishing comeback for someone who, five years ago, was charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling a black lavatory assistant a 'jigaboo' before charmingly punching her in the face.”
“Well, since Reid's remark doesn't come close to equating Obama to a porch monkey, spook, spade, moolie, jigaboo, or nig-nog, it's not overtly racist.”
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“You expect me to keep track of every jigaboo in Denver?”
“If I go marching around chanting white power I'll end up in jail yet a jigaboo can go around all day screaming black power and people think he is some sort of hero.”
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“Slim-Fast fired her faster than you can say “jigaboo”!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jigaboo’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
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