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jiggaboo

jiggaboo is the alternative form 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.

Forms of jiggaboo

pluraljiggaboos

Questions about jiggaboo

What is jiggaboo the alternative form of?
Jiggaboo is the alternative form of jigaboo.

Words near jiggaboo in the dictionary

  1. Jigawa
  2. jigawatt
  3. jigawatts
  4. jigga jigga
  5. jigga-jigga
  6. jiggaboo
  7. jiggaboos
  8. jiggambob
  9. jiggambobs
  10. jigged
  11. jigged up

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