"niggro" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: niggros [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} niggro (plural niggros)
  1. Archaic form of negro. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: negro

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1868, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, “New Faces”, in Dotty Dimple Out West, Boston, M.A.: Lee and Shepard, page 89:",
          "text": "O, now I remember, she's a niggro, as black as a sip.\"",
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          "ref": "1910, Octave Thanet [pseudonym; Alice French], By Inheritance, Indianapolis, I.N.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 64:",
          "text": "But agriculture is the work for the niggro. It has variety. I don't believe they will be any good for the manufactures, cotton or steel. It is too monotonous.",
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          "ref": "1986, Clayton Bess, Tracks, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 110–111:",
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