nigger
nigger 英 [ˈnɪgə(r)] 美 [ˈnɪɡɚ]
n. 黑鬼（蔑称）；社会地位低下的人
名词复数:niggers
- Nigger is one of the most controversial, complicated words in English. It’s a hateful slur for an African-American, but many African-Americans use the word in a harmless way.
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- n. 黑鬼（蔑称）；社会地位低下的人
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1. Killed a nigger.
死了一个黑鬼。
- nigger (n.) 1786, earlier neger (1568, Scottish and northern England dialect), from French nègre, from Spanish negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks" [cited in Gowers, 1965, probably Harold R. Isaacs]. But as black inferiority was at one time a near universal assumption in English-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without deliberate insult. More sympathetic writers late 18c. and early 19c. seem to have used black (n.) and, after the American Civil War, colored person.
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