house nigger
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
house nigger (plural house niggers)
- (dated, now offensive) A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.
- 2003, John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle[1], page 162:
- "You look like a house nigger."