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jigaboos

jigaboos is the plural of jigaboo.

Meaning of jigaboo

Noun

jigaboo (plural jigaboos)

  1. (dated, offensive, slang) A black person.
    • […] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]2012, Michael Rogers, Coconut Shells, page 3
  2. (dated, offensive, slang) Any dark-skinned person.

Questions about jigaboos

What is jigaboos the plural of?
Jigaboos is the plural of jigaboo.

Words near jigaboos in the dictionary

  1. jig up
  2. jig-a-jig
  3. jig-jig
  4. jig-jog
  5. jigaboo
  6. jigaboos
  7. jigajig
  8. jigamaree
  9. jigamarees
  10. Jigawa
  11. jigawatt

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