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tree nigger en · NOUN

Etymology

tree + nigger

Meanings

1. (derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) A Native American person
   • lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a "tree nigger" or worse. 1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page xlviii:
   • He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers. 2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m:
   • sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies 1862, Supplement to the Courant, page 88:

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Relateds

redskin · timber nigger · prairie nigger · red nigger