niggerskin
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]niggerskin (plural niggerskins)
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person's skin.
- 1944, Sylvestre Cornelius Watkins, Anthology of American Negro Literature (Modern library of the world's best books)[1], Modern Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 352:
- A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins.
- 2010, Phil Cummings, Sin City High[3], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 395:
- ”I want to get me a nigger toe to hang from my rear view mirror! I thought about niggerskin fuckin' upholstery and maybe even scalping a few of these jigaboos and having my dashboard padded with nigger-hair but that means I'd have to be here all fuckin' day man and this fuckin' school bugs me.”
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, metonymically) A black person.
- 1981, The Journalism Research Fellows Report: What Makes an Effective School?[5], Institute for Educational Leadership, →OCLC, page 91:
- So are many of the quiet, orderly scenes in the school's halls. Children come back from recess on the run, pushing and shoving. One child three days in a row yells, “Niggerskins, niggerskins,” at another who is foreign-born.