niggerhood
niggerhood noun: the state or period of being a nigger.
Noun (1)
niggerhood (usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods)
- The state or period of being a nigger.
- Slip-shod menials scowled cross-legged on the narrow poops, now pipe-filling automata in cloudy paletots and cloudier Tatar faces, now livery harem-slaves in all the pride of flat-nosed, thick-lipped, wooly niggerhood.1853, James Henry Skene, Anadol - The Last Home of the Faithful, page 3
- But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture
- Synonyms:
- niggerdom
Noun (2)
niggerhood (plural niggerhoods)
- A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.
- He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross
- The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211
Examples of niggerhood in a sentence
- He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits:
- During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms.Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)
- The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161:
- They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol.2020, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Martina Althoff (editors), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment, page 155:
Synonyms of niggerhood
Forms of niggerhood
| plural | niggerhoods |
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Origin of niggerhood
From nigger + -hood. First use appears c. 1853 in a publication by James Henry Skene. See cite below.
Blend of nigger + neighborhood;
Questions about niggerhood
- What does niggerhood mean?
- Niggerhood means the state or period of being a nigger.
- How do you use niggerhood in a sentence?
- He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.
- What part of speech is niggerhood?
- Niggerhood is a noun.
- What is the plural of niggerhood?
- The plural of niggerhood is niggerhoods.
Words near niggerhood in the dictionary
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