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n Used as a disparaging term for a Black person. [Alteration of dialectal neger, black person, from French negre, from Spanish negro.]
Used by Whites in the Jim Crow South who were too lace-curtain to say "nigger" but too racist to say "Negro."
Derivative of the name of a champagne; Cordon Negro.
Short for Negroid.
Vinny del Negro was a basketball player
This word has been used since the 17th century to refer to a male Negro - no matter whether slave or not.
Starting time (probably from old Negro spiritual "Rise and Shine")
From neGRO.
A negro or mulatto infant. Used in the Southern States.
Once acceptable, it is now often taken derogatorily by Blacks.
Most likely originates with the Latin word "niger" which translates to "black". Similar words for "black" exist in other languages (Spanish, for example, is "negro"). Also somewhat relates to the African country Nigeria, which is primarily black. Many variations exist, including "Nig", "Nigel", "Niggy", "Niggly", etc. Some interesting history.
a negro
Negro + oid; +oid being a general english suffix meaning related to.
Comes from Negro.
Short for Negroid.
Velcro−head is slang for a Negro.
a negro
Dinge is derogatory American slang for a Negro.
Coon is derogatory slang for a Negro.
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See Negroid.
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The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.
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One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
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Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
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A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
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A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.
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To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
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A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
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The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
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of Negro
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One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
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In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
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; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
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A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.
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A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
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Characteristic of the negro.
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A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
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A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
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A negro.
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Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
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