Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant (Guizotia abyssinica) of the composite family native to northeast Africa, having yellow flower heads and grown for its oil-rich seeds, often used for birdseed.
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- noun A
herb , Guizotia abyssinica, fromEthiopia , grown for itsseed and edibleoil .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But I can say this, that it may have came from the Latin word ''niger'' for the color black.
Boondocks: Dr. King Would Blast Niggers, Relocate to Canada. Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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In the book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy, the Harvard Law professor writes that the word is derived from the Latin word "niger" and the Spanish word
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"Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?"
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Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?
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REVEREND JESSE JACKSON: You used the word niger and then the lynching scene have you been here before?
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Going from that to the excessive use of profanity, repretish use of the word niger, and idea about some body lynching from a tree, that's pretty pathologic, pretty sick.
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In fact, Wikipedia suggests that it is 'a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning "black"', but that's a technicality.
Planned Changes to the Dictionary Dungeekin 2009
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Suppose, that two tribes used the same written characters, but attached different and opposite meanings to them, so that 'niger', for instance, was used by one tribe to convey the notion 'black', by the other, 'white'; -- could they, without absurdity, be said to have the same language?
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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‘Josef Lemper’ – the Helleborus niger hybrid I posted about last month – is still in full flower.
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The bully tactics usually used in these niger scams, reflect their own awful society of course.
champagne for everyone! Another Outspoken Female 2009
reesetee commented on the word niger
In rare/antique bookbinding, a soft goatskin with no pronounced grain
February 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word niger
February 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the word niger
Yup, that's the place, all right. Thanks for the visual.
February 20, 2007
mouss commented on the word niger
Hello guys here is more informations about the country niger
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February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word niger
Thanks, mouss. I think I got it.
February 21, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word niger
But it's also listed here as a soft goatskin, not just as a country (which would have a capital N at any rate). So... do we have a map of a soft goatskin? .... Anyone? .... Bueller?
February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word niger
Uh...no, I don't have that map on me, unfortunately. But I'm fairly certain that the name for this type/treatment of leather derived from the country of the same name. Another type is morocco, which I'm sure I'll see a map for at some point. ;-)
February 21, 2007
uselessness commented on the word niger
Not unless I can make a semi-offensive pun with it.
February 21, 2007
bilby commented on the word niger
The tiger is not native to Africa. Fortunately, though, they have a country to rhyme with it, ie. Niger *blushes*
April 9, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word niger
Actually, Niger doesn't rhyme with tiger. It is pronounced 'nee-jair'.
November 9, 2008