house nigger
English
editEtymology
editBy analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.
Pronunciation
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Noun
edithouse 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."