See nigger twist on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From niggerhead.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "nigger twist (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1952 July 6, Sunday Mail, Brisbane:", "text": "It was used for ‘nigger twist’ tobacco and sent to the islands during the war.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 304:", "text": "‘You wouldn't happen to have a taj of nigger-twist on you?’ asked I.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property." ], "id": "en-nigger_twist-en-noun-MU2UxvVr", "links": [ [ "tobacco", "tobacco" ], [ "labourer", "labourer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia) Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "nigger tobacco" } ], "tags": [ "Australia", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "nigger twist" }
{ "etymology_text": "From niggerhead.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "nigger twist (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Australian English", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1952 July 6, Sunday Mail, Brisbane:", "text": "It was used for ‘nigger twist’ tobacco and sent to the islands during the war.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 304:", "text": "‘You wouldn't happen to have a taj of nigger-twist on you?’ asked I.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property." ], "links": [ [ "tobacco", "tobacco" ], [ "labourer", "labourer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia) Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "uncountable" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "nigger tobacco" } ], "word": "nigger twist" }
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