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niggeritis

niggeritis noun: an urge to sleep after eating much food.

Noun

niggeritis (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) An urge to sleep after eating much food.
    • Stacy let me drive, and I was wide awake on coffee. So, I figured I'd let the girls indulge in some niggeritis while I did some sightseeing.2009, Relentless Aaron, Burning Desire, page 114
    • Hector laughed and said it was the food, giving me what I called niggeritis; black people get a little tired after eating and burning a spliff. When you finish a good meal, all you want to do is sleep.2016, O’Neil Gray, The Banana Boat Man

Examples of niggeritis in a sentence

  • Shrugging his shoulders, Carl went downstairs and ate his food then got niggeritis then fell asleep on the couch.2019, Brianna Barnes, A True Woman's Worth Is Better Than Real Gold:
  • When we got back to my apartment I caught niggeritis and went right to sleep.2022, Jim Hill, Born to Be, page 340:

Origin of niggeritis

From nigger + -itis.

Questions about niggeritis

What does niggeritis mean?
Niggeritis means an urge to sleep after eating much food.
How do you use niggeritis in a sentence?
Shrugging his shoulders, Carl went downstairs and ate his food then got niggeritis then fell asleep on the couch.
What part of speech is niggeritis?
Niggeritis is a noun.

Words near niggeritis in the dictionary

  1. niggerishly
  2. niggerishness
  3. niggerising
  4. niggerism
  5. niggerisms
  6. niggeritis
  7. niggerization
  8. niggerize
  9. niggerized
  10. niggerizes
  11. niggerizing

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