nigger

Sranan Tongo: nengre

Aukan: nengee

Saramaccan: në́ngë

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/.

чёрный

note: негр m (negr) and негритя́нка f (negritjánka) are neutral terms

حبشی

offensive if intended otherwise 'Male Ethiopian/Abyssian'

حبشن

offensive if intended otherwise 'Female Ethiopian/Abyssinian'

(now offensive) Any of various dark animals:

(UK, Cornwall, fishing, archaic) A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.

To this group belongs the nigger, or black caterpillar of the turnip, which is often in sufficient numbers to do much mischief.

(archaic) The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.

Well, it's a big heavy line, and you operate the nigger — capstan it's also called — by steam. You wrap your line around that and keep taking in the slack, and that draws up them things.

(archaic, US) A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.


sea cucumber

From sea + cucumber, named in reference to its appearance. The term first appeared in common use in the 19th century, and is a calque of French concombre de mer according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

An echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.


trepang

There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell market and quite a few of the pearling luggers had turned their attention to diving for trepang, which had survived the ravages of the depression and was easy to recover, lying in shallow waters.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 266:


holothurian

en-adj

holothurian (comparative more holothurian, superlative most holothurian)

more holothurian (comparative)
most holothurian (superlative)

From Ancient Greek ὁλοθούριον (holothoúrion, “holothurium”).


sea pudding

(UK, archaic) Any of various sea cucumbers.


sea pig

A sea cucumber in the genus Scotoplanes.


holothure

Latin holothuria, plural, a sort of water polyp, from Ancient Greek.


sea gherkin

Any of a number of small holothurians resembling in form a gherkin, especially Pawsonia saxicola.


holothuroid

(zoology) A sea cucumber (of class Holothuroidea)


sea orange

A large American holothurian (Psolus fabricii) with a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales.


sea apple

Sea-apple: Manicaria Pluketielii.

1864, August Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands:

The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria plukenetii ⇒ ) Manicaria saccifera, often found floating in the sea.


chiridotid

Any deep-sea holothurian of the family Chiridotidae


laetmogonid

Any holothurian in the family Laetmogonidae


myriotrochid

Any holothurian of the family Myriotrochidae


caudinid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Caudinidae.


cucumariid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Cucumariidae


holothuriid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae.


molpadiid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Molpadiidae


pelagothuriid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Pelagothuriidae


phyllophorid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Phyllophoridae


psolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Psolidae of sea cucumbers.


stichopodid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Stichopodidae


synaptid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Synaptidae.


holothurin

Any of a group of toxins of the saponin class, originally isolated from the sea cucumber Actinopyga agassizii.


holothuroidean

(uncommon) A sea cucumber, member of the class Holothuroidea.


holothuroidean

(uncommon) Of or relating to the Holothuroidea.


holothurid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber (class Holothuroidea)


elasipodid

Any sea cucumber of the order Elasipodida


apodacean

Any holothurian of the subclass Apodacea


elpidiid

Any sea cucumber of the family Elpidiidae


aspidochirotid

Any sea cucumber of the order Aspidochirotida


actinoptygian

Any sea cucumber of the genus Actinopyga


cotton-spinner

black sea cucumber
black sea cucumber#English


black sea cucumber

en-noun

black sea cucumber (plural black sea cucumbers)

A sea cucumber found in shallow waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, Holothuria forskali.