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"word": "nigger pennies"
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"word": "pizza nigger"
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"word": "plantation nigger"
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"word": "potato nigger"
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"word": "prairie nigger"
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"word": "rice nigger"
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"word": "sand nigger"
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"word": "sweat like a nigger"
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"word": "sweat like a nigger on election day"
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"word": "taco nigger"
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"word": "teenigger"
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"word": "timber nigger"
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"word": "tree nigger"
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"word": "white nigger"
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"word": "wigger"
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"etymology_text": "Probably immediately from French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro (“a black African”); ultimately from Latin niger (“black”), thus a doublet of negro and noir. Compare Danish nigger, Swedish nigger, German Nigger, Dutch nikker. First use appears c. 1577, in the writings of Edward Hellowes (fl. 1574–1601). The expected Modern English pronunciation would be with /iː/; compare neger. The modern pronunciation with /ɪ/ may be due to influence from the Latin etymon (compare the older Southern US pronunciation of negro with /ɪ/), but compare the dialectal American pronunciations of eagle and eager as /ˈɪɡəl/ and /ˈɪɡɚ/.",
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"ref": "1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 274",
"text": "“Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said.",
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"ref": "2004, Hotel Rwanda, spoken by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte)",
"text": "You are not even a nigger, you are an African.",
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"(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent."
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"ref": "1996, Chris Rock: Bring the Pain, Chris Rock (actor)",
"text": "There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2008, “The N Word”, in Greydon Square (music), The CPT Theorem",
"text": "See, niggers are followers, blacks normally lead.\nNiggers call blacks \"whitewash\" soon as they on the scene.",
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{
"ref": "2010 April 13, Kitty Kelley, quoting an unnamed town resident, Oprah: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →OL, page 193",
"text": "Blacks stayed at home during the civil rights march. Niggers are the ones that marched.",
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"ref": "2021, Dave Chapelle, The Closer",
"text": "...and as I was leaving it occurred to me. \"Hey, hey, Renee, quick question[...] Why is it that I can say the word ‘nigger’ with impunity but I can't say the word ‘faggot’?\" And she said, \"Because, David, you are not gay.\" I said, \"Well, Renee... I'm not a nigger either.\"",
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"(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.",
"(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang) A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves)."
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"ref": "1880 June 19, Henry Kendall, “My Piccaninny”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 28, column 4",
"text": "He never lost his appetite -\nHe bigger grew and bigger;\nAnd proved, with every inch of height,\nA nigger is a nigger.",
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"ref": "1902, George Stoddart Whitmore, The Last Maori War in New Zealand..., page vi",
"text": "Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.",
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"ref": "1985, Cormac McCarthy, “Chapter 10”, in blood Meridian, Random House, →OCLC",
"text": "[H]e commenced to kill Indians. We needed no second invitation. God it was a butchery. At the first fire we killed a round dozen and we did not let up. Before the last poor nigger reached the bottom of the slope there was fifty-eight of them lay slaughtered among the gravels. They just slid down the slope like chaff down a hopper, some turned this way, some that, and they made a chain about the base of the mountain\n[This quote is spoken by a scalphunter in c. 1850.]",
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"ref": "1988, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, May 18, 1988”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 197",
"text": "At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, \"Now the Commission has a nigger working for them\" and \"I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers\"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.",
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"ref": "2001 Autumn-Winter, Awad Ibrahim, quoting ‘Sam’, “Hey, whadap homeboy?”, in Taboo, page 94",
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"text": "People be surprised. I have friends who're all kinds a letters. Everybody loves me an' I love everybody. I got friends who are Ls, I got friends who are Bs, and I got friends who are Gs. But the Ts hate my fucking guts. And I don't blame 'em! It's not their fault. It's mine. I can't stop tellin' jokes about these niggas.",
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"ref": "1979 April 14, Jil Clark (quoting Mel King), \"King Axes Women's Commission\", in Gay Community News, page 1",
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"ref": "c. 1972 Ron Dellums, speech quoted in e.g. 2012, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Simon and Schuster), page 58",
"text": "It's time for somebody to lead all of America's Niggers,\" he said at the Capitol Hill press conference when Shirley Chisholm announced she was running for president, \"and by this I mean the Young, the Black, the Brown, the Women, the Poor—all the people who feel left out of the political process. If we can put the Nigger Vote together, we can bring about some real change in this country.\"",
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"text": "1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, \"Woman Is the Nigger of the World\" (song)"
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"word": "նեգր"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "zənci"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "негър"
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"word": "мангал"
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"word": "黑鬼"
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"Hokkien"
],
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"Hokkien"
],
"word": "乌鬼"
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"Hokkien"
],
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "乌张飞"
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"roman": "hēiguǐ",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "黑鬼"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "尼哥"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negr"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "nigger"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "abekat"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nikker"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neger"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roetmop"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "nigrulaĉo"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nigrulaĉino"
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"code": "et",
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "neeger"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"offensive"
],
"word": "pigi"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "neekeri"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "laku"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "nègre"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "négresse"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bougnoule"
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{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zangi",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "ზანგი"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Neger"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Negerin"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nigger"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Niggerin"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bimbo"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kaffer"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kafferin"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"dated",
"masculine"
],
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},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"dated",
"feminine"
],
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αράπης"
},
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "nika"
},
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"lang": "Hebrew",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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},
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "kúshi",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "כושי \\ כּוּשִׁי"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "néger"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "feka"
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{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negri"
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "nigracho"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negro"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negra"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "黒んぼ"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
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"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "黒奴"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "ニガー"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geomdung'i",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "검둥이"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkamdung'i",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "깜둥이"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "crnec",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "црнец"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "svarting"
},
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "sotrør"
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{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svarting"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "siyâh suxte",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "سیاه سوخته"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ğolâm-siyâh",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "غلام سیاه"
},
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kâkâ-siyâh",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "کاکا سیاه"
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"person"
],
"word": "czarnuch"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine",
"person"
],
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"person"
],
"word": "asfalt"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "preto"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "macaco"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negrotei"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cioară"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "negritós",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "негрито́с"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "негрито́ска"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "černomázyj",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чернома́зый"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "černomázaja",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чернома́зая"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ни́ггер"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine",
"offensive"
],
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},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neger"
},
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"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negro"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negra"
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{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "es",
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"lang": "Spanish",
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"masculine"
],
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{
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "negrillo"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 30 0 23 10 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negrilla"
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{
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "negrito"
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{
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"masculine"
],
"word": "negrote"
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"masculine"
],
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"word": "negro de mierda"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"ref": "2007, George Hovis, Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction, Univ of South Carolina Press, page 86",
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"ref": "1985, Cormac McCarthy, “Chapter 10”, in blood Meridian, Random House, →OCLC",
"text": "[H]e commenced to kill Indians. We needed no second invitation. God it was a butchery. At the first fire we killed a round dozen and we did not let up. Before the last poor nigger reached the bottom of the slope there was fifty-eight of them lay slaughtered among the gravels. They just slid down the slope like chaff down a hopper, some turned this way, some that, and they made a chain about the base of the mountain\n[This quote is spoken by a scalphunter in c. 1850.]",
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"ref": "1988, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, May 18, 1988”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 197",
"text": "At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, \"Now the Commission has a nigger working for them\" and \"I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers\"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.",
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"ref": "1997, McKinley Lee, Chosen by Fate: My Life inside Death Row Records",
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"ref": "2001 Autumn-Winter, Awad Ibrahim, quoting ‘Sam’, “Hey, whadap homeboy?”, in Taboo, page 94",
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"ref": "2002 January 13, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “\"Loaded Language\", a review of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy”, in Washington Post, page BW06",
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"ref": "2021, Dave Chapelle, The Closer",
"text": "People be surprised. I have friends who're all kinds a letters. Everybody loves me an' I love everybody. I got friends who are Ls, I got friends who are Bs, and I got friends who are Gs. But the Ts hate my fucking guts. And I don't blame 'em! It's not their fault. It's mine. I can't stop tellin' jokes about these niggas.",
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"ref": "1979 April 14, Jil Clark (quoting Mel King), \"King Axes Women's Commission\", in Gay Community News, page 1",
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"ref": "c. 1972 Ron Dellums, speech quoted in e.g. 2012, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Simon and Schuster), page 58",
"text": "It's time for somebody to lead all of America's Niggers,\" he said at the Capitol Hill press conference when Shirley Chisholm announced she was running for president, \"and by this I mean the Young, the Black, the Brown, the Women, the Poor—all the people who feel left out of the political process. If we can put the Nigger Vote together, we can bring about some real change in this country.\"",
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"text": "1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, \"Woman Is the Nigger of the World\" (song)"
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"ref": "1932, Gustavus Athol Waterhouse, What Butterfly is That?: A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia, page 112",
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{
"ref": "2010, Khew Sin Khoon, A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore, page 69",
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"ref": "1873, Nature, volume 7, page 448",
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"ref": "1892, Western Electrician, volume 11, page 72",
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"ref": "1918, Leonard L. Shertzer, How to Build and Operate a Sawmill, page 20",
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"ref": "1983, Goldenseal, volume 9, page 20",
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"ref": "1961, Peter Snow, Electronic Flashlight Photography, page 114",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"sense": "derogatory term for black person",
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"code": "hy",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "նեգր"
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"code": "az",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "zənci"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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{
"code": "bg",
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"code": "yue",
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"word": "黑鬼"
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"code": "da",
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "neeger"
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"code": "et",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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],
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"code": "fr",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "ზანგი"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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],
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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],
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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],
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "ニガー"
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{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
"word": "검둥이"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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{
"code": "es",
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],
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{
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"sense": "black person (derogatory)",
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{
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{
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"code": "es",
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{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "حبشی"
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{
"code": "ur",
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"roman": "habśan",
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"feminine"
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],
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"code": "yi",
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],
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"code": "yi",
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"ref": "1844, J. W. Dunbar Moodie, “The Ould Dhragoon; or, a visit to the beaver meadow”, in Literary garland, volume 2, Lovell & Gibson, page 360",
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"ref": "1914, Indiana State Teachers Association, Readings in Indiana history, Indiana University, History Section, page 171",
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"ref": "1956, Joseph Kirkland, Zury: the meanest man in Spring County: a novel of western life, University of Illinois Press, page 40",
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"ref": "1980, Elaine Hedges, William Hedges, Land and imagination: the rural dream in America, Hayden Book Co., page 69",
"text": "This means subduing and taming the forest itself—the central drama of The Fields—performing the hard labor of hacking the trees and “niggering” and burning the butts in order to get to the rich black soil underneath.",
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"ref": "1989, Reynolds Price, The surface of earth, Ballantine Books, page 120",
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"ref": "2007, George Hovis, Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction, Univ of South Carolina Press, page 86",
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"ref": "2008, Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Story Of Iggy Pop, Music Sales Group",
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"ref": "1997 January 18, Joe Frisch, “Anglo-US relations under a Blair Government”, in uk.org.mensa (Usenet)",
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"ref": "1999 December 3, Jeff Welch, “Who is McGuyver and why was he \"niggered?”, in seattle.general, December 3 (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2003 July 16, “Mob Attacks Palestinian Pollsters Who Told The Truth”, in soc.retirement (Usenet)",
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