niggering

Verb

nigger (third-person singular simple present niggers, present participle niggering, simple past and past participle niggered)

1. (dated, transitive) To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
   • […] he resorted to the practice of “niggering,” as it is called: which is simply laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact; by which means the trees are slowly burned through.1844, J. W. Dunbar Moodie, “The Ould Dhragoon; or, a visit to the beaver meadow”, in Literary garland, volume 2, Lovell & Gibson, page 360
2. (dated, transitive) To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
3. (intransitive, offensive) To perform in blackface.
   • There is a general agreement that niggering took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.1976, Cake and Cockhorse, volume 7, page 220
4. (intransitive, offensive) To behave as a stereotypical black person.
   • His father said, “Niggering, I was niggering about. You knew that surely.”1989, Reynolds Price, The surface of earth, Ballantine Books, page 120
5. (offensive, transitive, uncommon) To treat as inferior.
   • The gated community is a powerful tool in the systematic and sustained niggering of local 3rd-world communities - namely, in the book, the Hispanic (mostly wetbacK^([sic])) community[.]1997 January 18, Joe Frisch, “Anglo-US relations under a Blair Government”, in uk.org.mensa (Usenet)

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