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niggerless en · ADJ

Etymology

From nigger + -less.

Meanings

  1. (ethnic, not-comparable, offensive, slur) Without any negroes; without black people
    • Jason Compson, now motherless and niggerless but not Benjy-less [1933], converted the old Compson place into apartments and sold it to a local man as a boarding house, renting one apartment back in which to house Benjy […] 1988, John Kenny Crane, The Yoknapatawpha Chronicle of Gavin Stevens, page 240:
    • Dogless, niggerless, headless, what now remains for the unhappy Signora Psyche Zenobia? 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, A Predicament:
    • The question will be, shall we give niggers to the niggerless, or lands to the landless? 1859 (Feb. 25), Sen. Benjamin Franklin Wade, Congressional Globe, 1354 passim, in American History Told by Contemporaries: Welding of the nation, 1845-1900, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, published 1901
    • The Absentee Force commutes from the ticky-tacky wonderland of Massapequa to serve their time; the others retreat, in off-duty hours, to cavernous saloons, to reminisce about "niggerless" New York ball clubs 1977, New York Affairs, volume 4, numbers 2-4, page 76: