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groid

/ɡɹɔɪd/

groid is the clipping of negroid.

Meaning of negroid

Noun

negroid (plural negroids)

  1. (dated, ethnic, offensive, slur) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
    • "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

See all 2 meanings of negroid

Forms of groid

pluralgroids
alternative form'groid

Origin of groid

Clipping of negroid.

Words that rhyme with groid

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Questions about groid

What is groid the clipping of?
Groid is the clipping of negroid.
How do you pronounce groid?
Groid is pronounced /ɡɹɔɪd/.

Words near groid in the dictionary

  1. Groh
  2. Grohl
  3. Grohman
  4. Grohmans
  5. Grohs
  6. groid
  7. groids
  8. groin
  9. groin field
  10. groin fields
  11. groin ringworm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: groid (page history and authors); negroid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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