niggeress
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]niggeress (plural niggeresses, masculine nigger)
- (dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A black woman; a negress.
- 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day:
- Poor thing ! why whenever I thinks of that there female niggeress, and what she went through with us, it does pain me to turn my eyes back and look on it...
- 1922, Hugh Lofting, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle:
- Myself, I think it was an albino niggeress. She had red hair and the biggest feet you ever saw. But Bumpo was no end pleased with her...
- 1974, Folsom Prison, Echoes off the Walls:
- That niggeress Joann Something is pregnant and she been locked up for nine months...