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ziggaboos

ziggaboos is the plural of ziggaboo.

Meaning of ziggaboo

Noun

ziggaboo (plural ziggaboos)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, slur, African-American Vernacular) A nigger, negro; synonym of jigaboo.
    • Right now she got money enough in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and give ’em away.”1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 148

Questions about ziggaboos

What is ziggaboos the plural of?
Ziggaboos is the plural of ziggaboo.

Words near ziggaboos in the dictionary

  1. Zigans
  2. zigeuner
  3. Zigeuner sauce
  4. zigeuners
  5. ziggaboo
  6. ziggaboos
  7. ziggarat
  8. ziggarats
  9. zigged
  10. zigged when one should have zagged
  11. zigged when one should zag

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