English Dictionary

nigger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/

名詞

民族名 攻撃的 差別語 卑語 俗語 比喩的用法 古風 コーンウォール方言 イギリス英語 古語 アメリカ英語

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.

日本語の意味

極めて侮蔑的な表現で、主にアフリカ系の黒人を指す差別用語。 / 使用する際は非常に不適切とされ、侮辱的な意図を持つことが多い。

The historian read aloud the offensive slur nigger from a primary source to show how language has been used to dehumanize Black people.

その歴史家は一次資料から黒人を侮辱する差別的な用語を声に出して読み上げ、言葉がどのように黒人を非人間化するために使われてきたかを示した。

意味（1）

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.

意味（2）

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang) A person of black African descent who acts in an unapproved manner (whether positive or negative).

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.

意味（3）

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).

He never lost his appetite - He bigger grew and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger.

意味（4）

(African-American Vernacular) A friend, particularly a fellow black person, often used as an informal term of address.

“Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.”

意味（5）

(figuratively, especially African-American Vernacular, otherwise offensive) A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).

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.

意味（6）

(now offensive) A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).

意味（7）

(now offensive, dated) A dark brown nymphalid butterfly, Orsotriaena medus, of south Asia, southeast Asia, and Australia.

Nigger (Male) Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse and Lyell. 1914.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

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

意味（10）

(archaic, electrical) An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.

Now to locate the portion of the machine which contains the nigger.

意味（11）

(archaic) A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.

A sawyer will come along and be touted and recommended as the best in the country when his chief qualifications will be his ability to jerk the carriage back and forth in a hurry without striking the bumper or to turn the log with the nigger […]

意味（12）

(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.

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.

意味（13）

(film, dated) A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.

Care should be taken to check visually from the position occupied by the subject and from the camera also, to ascertain that the nigger is positioned correctly and does not obstruct the picture area.

niggers （ plural ）

niggeress （ feminine ）