nigger baby

English

Noun

nigger baby (plural nigger babies)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black baby.
   • 1843, Joseph Jones, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Major Jones's Sketches of Travel, Comprising the Scenes, Incidents and Adventures in His Tour from Georgia to Canada, page 147:

     whar the water is sleepin still and dark as a nigger baby in a shuck-pen-the lofty peaks raisin ther bald heds into the sky to bathe 'em in the cold moon-beams

   • 1942, School of the Jewish Woman (New York, N.Y.) (contributor), News from the School of the Jewish Woman‎^[1], volume 8, page 25:

     "Last one in the water's a nigger-baby." The childhood-ingrained attitudes which these expressions represent cut deeper and wider than the need of discontented groups to feel superior and to express hatred safely.

   • 2007, Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, David Steele, Silent Gesture, The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, page 66:

     That is what society taught us at the time. Just like it taught us that being a nigger baby was something you didn't want to be. I didn't know any better.