Dictionary

niggery en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɪɡəɹi/

Etymology

From nigger + -y.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) Of or like a nigger.
   • […] hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way. 2004, Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality, page 499:
   • Reba's high-minded, skinned grandmother “had taught me that it was good fashion to dress simply and not wear loud colors and earrings and fake jewelry. I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self. 2009, Mark M Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, page 138:
   • She remembered the hot sun, the soft red earth under her sick head, the niggery smell of the cabin behind the ruins of Twelve Oaks, remembered the refrain her heart had beaten […] 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

niggerish · niggerlike · niggeresque