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Nigger

Nigger is a racial slur directed at Black people. References to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. In an instance of linguistic reappropriation, the term nigger is also used casually and fraternally among African Americans, most commonly in the form of…

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Nigger

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Avg. degree1.99
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related to Other languages · 44
Nigger → Afro-Brazilians, Although Nègre, American English, Black, Black-skinned, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Crioulo, Dutch, English, Examples, Farbige/-r, Finnish, Finnish Neekeri, French, Frenchmen, German, Haitian Creole, Help Needed, In
related to Sources · 43
Nigger → Action, African American Review, ASIN B000BVZW38, Bloomers, Bombshell, Brooklyn, Code/System/Concept, Cyber, Fall, Fuller, Harlem Renaissance, Household Words, ISBN, JSTOR, Kennedy, Minneapolis, Minnesota Press, Neely Jr, New Amsterdam Gehenna, New York
related to Political use · 24
Nigger → African-American, An Ali, Army Black, Booker, First Lady Lou Hoover, In, Jessie De Priest, Later, Me Nigger, Muhammad Ali, Niggers, No Vietcong, No Vietnamese Ever Called, October, Oscar De Priest, President Herbert Hoover, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Lipsyte, The, Viet Cong
related to In an academic setting · 23
Nigger → Arizona State University English, Augsburg University, Brown, Chicago, College, DePaul, Desert, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Emory University, In, Instead, Lester, Lincoln Brown, Neal, New Orleans, Princeton, Richard Pryor, Simpson College, Smith College, Southern Connecticut State University
related to 20th-century United States · 22
Nigger → African, American, American English, Black, Black-skinned Americans, British English, By, Dictionary, Fowler's, Harold, I'm, Isaacs, Modern English Usage, Nella Larsen's, Notes, Négritude, Passing, President Thomas Jefferson, See Black, State
related to 18th- and 19th-century United States · 19
Nigger → African American, Anglos, Black, Blacks, By, During, Far West, Frenchmen, George Ruxton, Indians, It, John Brown, Mexicans, Niggur, Ruxton's Life, The, This, Travler, Western United States
related to Derivatives · 16
Nigger → Black, Black Americans, English-speaking, Henry Mayhew, In, In American English, It, London Labour, London Poor, Morning Chronicle, Niggerhead, Norman Mailer, The, The White Negro, US, White
related to Cultural use · 12
Nigger → Adventures, American Library Association, Black, Huckleberry Finn, Jim, Magazines, Mark Twain's, Mississippi River, N-word, One, The, Twain's
related to Early use · 12
Nigger → According, Aethiop, English, English-language, French, In, Latin, Nigers, Oxford English Dictionary, Spanish, The, They
related to The N-word euphemism · 10
Nigger → Co-prosecutor Christopher Darden, Detective Mark Fuhrman, English, Fuhrman's, Key, Los Angeles Police Department, Media, N-word, One, Simpson

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word used black term english use white people negro usage american offensive african nigga also americans considered century language neutral

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Niggeris aracial slur directed at Black people0.90text
hip-hop cultureinstance ofwith the exception of cases derived from intra-group usage0.80text
substantia nigrainstance ofused in biologic and anatomic names0.80text
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesDuring0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesAfrican American0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesBlack0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesWestern United States0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesGeorge Ruxton0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesNiggur0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesThis0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesRuxton's Life0.60section
Niggerrelated to 18th- and 19th-century United StatesFar West0.60section

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