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niggerese en · NOUN

Etymology

From nigger + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, uncountable) Any dialect spoken by black people.
    • These bitches would fuck a beer bottle if it was black and it could talk some niggerese. 2004, Stanley Crouch, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome:
    • His drawl lengthened into pure Plantation Niggerese, and he winced with the pain of trying not to speak that way. He knew better, he told himself. 1992, Clay Reynolds, Franklin's crossing:
    • "He speaks Spanish, but it could be niggerese." John waited until the voices fell. 1981, Maya Angelou, The heart of a woman: