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niggerhoods

niggerhoods is the plural of niggerhood.

Meaning of niggerhood

Noun (1)

niggerhood (usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods)

  1. (offensive, usually) 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
    Synonyms:
    niggerdom

Noun (2)

niggerhood (plural niggerhoods)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) 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

Questions about niggerhoods

What is niggerhoods the plural of?
Niggerhoods is the plural of niggerhood.

Words near niggerhoods in the dictionary

  1. niggergram
  2. niggergrams
  3. niggerhead
  4. niggerheads
  5. niggerhood
  6. niggerhoods
  7. Niggeria
  8. Niggerian
  9. Niggerians
  10. niggering
  11. niggerisation

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