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Jigaboo

//ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbuː// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A black person. dated, offensive, slang

    "[…] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]"

  2. 2
    (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person wordnet
  3. 3
    Any dark-skinned person. dated, offensive, slang

Etymology

Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.

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