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niggeress en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English nigger Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English niggeress From nigger + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated, ethnic, offensive, slur) A black woman; a negress.
   • Poor thing ! why whenever I thinks of that there female niggeress, and what she went through with us, it does pain me to turn my eyes back and look on it... 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day:
   • That niggeress Joann Something is pregnant and she been locked up for nine months... 1974, Folsom Prison, Echoes off the Walls:
   • Myself, I think it was an albino niggeress. She had red hair and the biggest feet you ever saw. But Bumpo was no end pleased with her... 1922, Hugh Lofting, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle:

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