tree nigger
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
tree nigger (plural tree niggers)
- (ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person
- 1862, Supplement to the Courant[1], page 88:
- sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies
- 1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12[2], page xlviii:
- lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a "tree nigger" or worse.
- 2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m:
- He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.