spiggoty

English

Alternative forms

• spigotty

Noun

spiggoty (plural spiggoties)

1. (US, ethnic slur) Synonym of spic (“Latino, Latin American; Italian”)
   • 1914, The Black Cat (volume 20, page 36)

     He deserted, and for the sake of a girl, a spiggoty girl?

   • 1919 [1918], Jack London, The Red One‎^[1], London: Mills and Boon:

     You make the mistake of all Gringos in thinking a Mexican is a white man. He ain’t. None of them ain’t—Greasers, Spiggoties, Latin-Americans and all the rest of the cattle.

   • 1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:

     Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.