See niggerhood on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nigger",
"3": "hood"
},
"expansion": "nigger + -hood",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nigger + -hood. First use appears c. 1853 in a publication by James Henry Skene. See cite below.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "niggerhoods",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "niggerhood (usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -hood",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1853, James Henry Skene, Anadol - The Last Home of the Faithful, page 3:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture:",
"text": "But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits:",
"text": "He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)",
"text": "During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms. Murphy assigned us to make family trees."
},
{
"ref": "2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161:",
"text": "The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state or period of being a nigger."
],
"id": "en-niggerhood-en-noun-yddzVbVE",
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"period",
"period"
],
[
"nigger",
"nigger"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(offensive) The state or period of being a nigger."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "niggerdom"
}
],
"tags": [
"offensive",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"James Henry Skene"
],
"word": "niggerhood"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nigger",
"3": "neighborhood"
},
"expansion": "Blend of nigger + neighborhood",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of nigger + neighborhood;",
"forms": [
{
"form": "niggerhoods",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "niggerhood (plural niggerhoods)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English ethnic slurs",
"parents": [
"Ethnic slurs",
"Offensive terms",
"Terms by usage"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English blends",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 97",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 91",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 96",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross:",
"text": "He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211:",
"text": "The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Martina Althoff (editors), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment, page 155:",
"text": "We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents."
],
"id": "en-niggerhood-en-noun-sXS80bx8",
"links": [
[
"ethnic",
"ethnic"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
],
[
"neighborhood",
"neighborhood"
],
[
"primarily",
"primarily"
],
[
"African-American",
"African-American"
],
[
"resident",
"resident"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents."
],
"tags": [
"ethnic",
"offensive",
"slang",
"slur"
]
}
],
"word": "niggerhood"
}
{
"categories": [
"English blends",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -hood",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nigger",
"3": "hood"
},
"expansion": "nigger + -hood",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nigger + -hood. First use appears c. 1853 in a publication by James Henry Skene. See cite below.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "niggerhoods",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "niggerhood (usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English offensive terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1853, James Henry Skene, Anadol - The Last Home of the Faithful, page 3:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture:",
"text": "But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits:",
"text": "He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)",
"text": "During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms. Murphy assigned us to make family trees."
},
{
"ref": "2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161:",
"text": "The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state or period of being a nigger."
],
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"period",
"period"
],
[
"nigger",
"nigger"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(offensive) The state or period of being a nigger."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "niggerdom"
}
],
"tags": [
"offensive",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"James Henry Skene"
],
"word": "niggerhood"
}
{
"categories": [
"English blends",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nigger",
"3": "neighborhood"
},
"expansion": "Blend of nigger + neighborhood",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of nigger + neighborhood;",
"forms": [
{
"form": "niggerhoods",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "niggerhood (plural niggerhoods)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English ethnic slurs",
"English offensive terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross:",
"text": "He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211:",
"text": "The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Martina Althoff (editors), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment, page 155:",
"text": "We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents."
],
"links": [
[
"ethnic",
"ethnic"
],
[
"slur",
"slur"
],
[
"neighborhood",
"neighborhood"
],
[
"primarily",
"primarily"
],
[
"African-American",
"African-American"
],
[
"resident",
"resident"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents."
],
"tags": [
"ethnic",
"offensive",
"slang",
"slur"
]
}
],
"word": "niggerhood"
}
Download raw JSONL data for niggerhood meaning in All languages combined (4.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.