Download the app
educalingo
niggery

Meaning of "niggery" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NIGGERY

ˈnɪɡərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIGGERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Niggery is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NIGGERY

allegory · amphigory · buggery · Calgary · category · figgery · Gregory · Hungary · Nagari · piggery · priggery · skulduggery · subcategory · sugary · thuggery · tigery · vagary · vinegary · Whiggery · wiggery

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIGGERY

niggard · niggardize · niggardliness · niggardly · nigger · nigger brown · nigger in the woodpile · nigger minstrel · niggerdom · niggerhead · niggerish · niggerism · niggerling · niggle · niggler · niggling · nigglingly · niggly · nigh · nighly

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIGGERY

carpetbaggery · doggery · eggery · froggery · gaggery · groggery · hoggery · humbuggery · imagery · jaggery · pettifoggery · raggery · ratbaggery · sculduggery · skullduggery · snuggery · staggery · toggery · waggery · windbaggery · zigzaggery

Synonyms and antonyms of niggery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «niggery» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF NIGGERY

Find out the translation of niggery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of niggery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «niggery» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

niggery
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

niggery
570 millions of speakers
en

English

niggery
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

niggery
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

niggery
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

niggery
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

niggery
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

niggery
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

niggery
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Niggery
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

niggery
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

niggery
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

niggery
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Niggery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

niggery
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

niggery
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कनिष्ठ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

niggery
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

niggery
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

niggery
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

niggery
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

niggery
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

niggery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

niggery
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

niggery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

niggery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of niggery

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGGERY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of niggery
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «niggery».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about niggery

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGGERY»

Discover the use of niggery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to niggery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Queen Cora, Or, Slavery and Its Downfall
See-saw, niggery daw, Twaddy lubs her young master, She'll lub him, an' kiss him, eb'ry day, Till she can't kiss him no faster. Slap yer han's an' kick yer feet. Till yer tumbles off yer seat. Hooray. [She shows her white teeth, while laughing and  ...
James Rodwell, 1856
2
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self. At a mixed school in Chicago, she encountered “as 'niggery' a colored girl as I had ...
Mark M. Smith, 2009
3
The Letters of Anthony Trollope
But it seems like a poor, niggery, yellowfaced, half-bred sort of a place, with an ugly Dutch flavour about it. But I will tell you more about it by and bye.' Give my kindest regard to your wife & Mary. Yours always sincerely Anthony Trollope To ...
Anthony Trollope, N. John Hall, 1983
4
Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration ...
“Uhm . . . what's your name again?,” her cousins cruelly ask, “i can't remember— agatha or emmalina?” (77). Beatrice “suppress[es]” the clothes Tee has brought with her, calling them “niggery-looking” and inappropriate for “nice people” (85).
Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, 2006
5
For the Hell of it: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman
"Riots — environmental and psychological — are Holy, so don't screw around with explanations," he insisted in the article "Diggery is Niggery." Shortly after the riots he formed an ad hoc group called "The Committee of Concerned Honkies" ...
Jonah Raskin, 1996
6
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography
... a cave of the winds" Imagine, he wrote to the curious Sturgis, “three or four Rothschild houses" rolled “into one, a principality of mountain, lake & forest, 200,000 acres, surround that with vast states of niggery desolation, & make it impossible ...
Fred Kaplan, 2013
7
The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play
... but mostly they just stayed round in this languid paradise of dreamy skies and firefly evenings and noisy niggery street fairs—and especially of gracious, soft- voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money. The Ford having ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2004
8
Famous People I Have Known
... standing there at arm's length grimacing and hunching their pelvises at each other in a kind of dirty-boogie face-off ("I jus' cain't stand that awful ole niggery dancin' they do out there!" a UK sorority girl once wailed to I.Jay Weaver), and while ...
Ed McClanahan, 2003
9
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian ...
... tends to form them," and his fellow North Carolinian Senator George Badger, who considered Calhoun "absolutely deranged" on any matter "concerning niggery" and who denounced the meeting as "insane & dangerous," refused to attend.
Michael F. Holt, 2003
10
To Have and Have Not
Just like itwas only that niggery looking one onhis side is laying where Harry lay. He was on the bench over the starboard tank hanging over the coaming and the other darkoneby the sideofhim was on the other bench,the portside, hunched ...
Ernest Hemingway, 2014

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGGERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term niggery is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America
... published articles like “Hippie: The New Nigger” or “Diggery Is Niggery,” which appeared to turn black suffering into someone else's plaything ... «Daily Beast, Dec 14»
2
#TwitterFail: Twitter's Refusal to Handle Online Stalkers, Abusers …
... on most days, creates up to ten different Twitter accounts just so he can hurl racist slurs at me: I'm a “nigger,” I look “niggery,” I haven't earned ... «RH Reality Check, Aug 14»
3
“Glee” wins over hearts with powerful “faggy” scene
Finn gets angry- so he starts yelling loudly that “We need to get rid of the niggery lamp, and then this niggery couch.” That is hate and prejudice, ... «Hollywoodnews.com, May 10»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Niggery [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/niggery>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN