Citations:niggerling
English citations of niggerling
Noun: "A nigger of diminutive stature"
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- 1826 August, The United States Literary Gazette, volume 4, numbers 9-10, page 326:
- Accordingly there was a satisfactory communication of sweat between me and some dozens of His Majesty's. It is a large open room with the floor covered with wooden trays, and in each tray a naked niggerling.
- 1864, Thomas Hood, “A Black Job”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood[1], volume 1, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 308:
- And all the little Niggerlings emerge / As lily-white as mussels.
Noun: "A malapropism of sniggering"
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- 2005, John Ruganda, Black mamba: a play, page 52
- What is 'niggerling', Mwalimu?