Definitions
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- n. Negro; nigger.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of nigger.
Etymologies
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Examples
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From here he could see ahead,and down there in the middle of the road stood the widow waving hershawl as a banner neger ficken of triumph, though she could only guess at results.
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Tall, lithe, and graceful, he was so extremely dark that his intimates called him "der neger" -- "the negro."
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In Ovid it often has the sense 'poetic feeling', as at xii 16 'pectus habere neger'.
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One woman held up her little naked black child to me, grinning from ear to ear, "Look, Massa, look here! him nice lilly neger for Massa!"
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Three of his favorites, chimist for chemist, neger for negro and zeber for zebra, are incidentally interesting as showing changes in American pronunciation.
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He abandoned zeber in 1828, but remained faithful to chimist and neger to the last.
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Mr. Cotton Mather came to Mr. Wilkins's shop, and there talked very sharply against me as if I had used his father worse than a neger; spake so loud that people in the street might hear him ....
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We learn from one of his letters that John Winthrop, Jr., had a negro (presumably a slave) at Paquanet, for he says that a mad cow there "had almost spoiled the neger & made him ferfull to tend the rest of the cattell."
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The husband of the woman told me that his wife's master frequently boasted that a neger could not beat his time; I told him that if he would perform the part I had given him to do, by the assistance of the Lord, I would beat his time, though a neger, according to his sense of the word.
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On my arrival, every woman who had a child held it up to show me, exclaiming -, "See, massa, see! here nice new neger me bring for work for massa;" and those who had more than one did not fail to boast of the number, and make it a claim to the greater merit with me.
yarb commented on the word neger
...eyes like a frightened horfe's
of the neger, whites uplifted.
- Peter Reading, Hardfhip Aboard American Sloop The Peggy, 1765, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
June 28, 2008