noun
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black
person.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of any dark-skinned
people.
See also nigga, N-word.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of any racial or ethnic origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Offensive: Now Rare. a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by Black
people; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised:
In his 1987 novel The Commitments, Roddy Doyle wrote, "The
Irish are the niggers of Europe."
USAGE ALERT ABOUT
NIGGERThe term
nigger is now probably the most offensive word in
English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary
War. The senses labeled Extremely Disparaging and Offensive represent meanings that are deeply insulting and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense. It is so profoundly offensive that a euphemism has developed for those occasions when the word itself must be discussed, as in court or in a newspaper editorial: “the N-word .”