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Uncommonnigger
The correct spelling is nigger.
How to pronounce nigger
noun
IPA: /ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/
Say it like: Nig-jer
The correct spelling is nigger. (see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.(see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.
- 2.(see usage notes) A member of another typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations, e.g. prairie nigger, sand nigger).
- 3.An informal term of address.
- 4.A friend.
- 5.A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).
verb
- 1.To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
- 2.To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
- 3.To behave as a stereotypical black person.
- 4.To treat as inferior.
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