Niggerhood
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The state or period of being a nigger. offensive, uncountable, usually
"Slip-shod menials scowled cross-legged on the narrow poops, now pipe-filling automata in cloudy paletots and cloudier Tatar faces, now livery harem-slaves in all the pride of flat-nosed, thick-lipped, wooly niggerhood."
- 2 A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents. ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
"He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door."
Example
More examples"Slip-shod menials scowled cross-legged on the narrow poops, now pipe-filling automata in cloudy paletots and cloudier Tatar faces, now livery harem-slaves in all the pride of flat-nosed, thick-lipped, wooly niggerhood."
Etymology
From nigger + -hood. First use appears c. 1853 in a publication by James Henry Skene. See cite below.
Blend of nigger + neighborhood;
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