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nig·ger
 (n  g   r)
KEY
NOUN:
Offensive Slang
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- Used as a disparaging term for a Black person:
"You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger"
(James Baldwin).
- Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
- Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people:
"Gun owners are the new niggers . . . of society"
(John Aquilino).
ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration of dialectal neger, black person, from French nègre, from Spanish negro ; see
Negro
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